When two places look alike
is a series of 14 photographs that juxtaposes two distinct Ford company towns: Belterra, a rubber plantation village located in the Amazon Forest and Alberta, a sawmill town in Michigan Upper Peninsula. Built concurrently in 1935, both towns share similar housing typology despite their opposite locations. They respectively provided rubber and wood for the Model T manufacturing in the United States. Tossin collected contemporary photographs of Belterra’s dwellings on the internet and created a series of cut out cards. The artist then traveled to Alberta, Michigan, to photograph Belterra’s cards superimposed to the houses found there. 



When two places look alike, 2012–2013

Archival pigment print
40 x 27 in. each




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