Daria Addabbo
This Hard Land
Bruce Springsteen’s songs have long been a compass for me, teaching me how to navigate and read the American landscape. Filled with characters, workplaces, small towns, diners, parking lots, and fragile hopes, his lyrics offered a way to interpret contemporary America through photography. Work, struggle, and the promise of a better future for the next generation are central to his storytelling, as they are to the lives portrayed in this project. Photographed around Trump’s 2025 inauguration, this work looks at everyday America through a visual language shaped, in part, by Springsteen’s songs.
