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What replaces the American Dream if it dies?

(Started September 2025)

The American Dream was once alive and well: It was marked by progress, property, and possibility. For generations, this Dream promised hard working Americans security, prosperity, and belonging— much of the time in the form of a good job, home ownership, and a future better than your parents’. Today, that dream feels like a relic to many, a myth still sold but seldom delivered.

My long-term project intends to follow the quiet endurance and, in many cases, the quiet collapse of that dream across communities—suburban cul-de-sacs, rural ghost towns, immigrant enclaves, and digital side hustles. It’s a portrait of a nation in negotiation with itself, told through the faces and spaces where belief and reality collide.

Through documentary photography, I hope to chronicle the shifting definitions of truth and success across racial, generational, and geographic lines, illuminating what remains, what’s been lost, and what might come next.