The highlight of the American dream

« Happy Valley », Pennsylvania.  Its campus, its giant soccer stadium, his apple pies  ... But also  its businesses of rape , its  inhabitants in shape of caricature and his invisible minorities. Photographer Eva O'Leary has tracked the visual anomalies of this average city apparently neat..

The is of  the places  whose nicknam resonate as a manifest. This is the case of 'Happy Valley', «the lucky valley», alias State College, a small corner of Pennsylvania known for its huge campus and its 100,000-foot football stadium. A small end of American dream.An city average cleaned , as America count more.  28-year-old photographer, Eva O'Leary, grew up there.But she wanted to exceed the images of Epinal and apple pies  and pom-pom girls, thus,  like statistics  whose  is gargling  State College on her site  internet:  the one of the more small rates of stress in a US metropolis, the seventh  more safest city in the United States ... ...

Nul need to scratch too much to perceive  the upside of a less happy decorum, whose nail  has crushed in the scandal thread. In 2012, the local football club assistant coach was convicted for the rape of several minors. Amounts of aggression were so declared on the campus. Nothing   is not thus so idyllic as we believe . For Eva O'Leary, the ideals promoted are not just holes, they are dangerous. 'The normality that promotes this type of place is toxic. '


source image: internet
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