Thom Corbishley - Borscht Beat
The American landscape has played an influential role in Thom’s work, despite his work focussing primarily on his native Britain. It was on a family holiday in California as a young teenager, inundated by the impressive landscape and the work of those such as Ansel Adams, that the photographer was first inspired to pick up a camera. In this project ‘Borscht Beat’, Thom has produced his first body of work exclusively in America.
“I took the title from a radio programme on a local station we were listening to in the Catskills. It was a regular, hour long show dedicated to jewish music - lots of klezmer music, presumably on account of the large number of Hasidic communities throughout the ‘Borscht belt’ region of upstate New York we were staying in.”
Shot primarily in upstate New York and along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, the photos document his efforts to find the quintessentially American features that inspired him all those years ago, and so many others before him.
