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The New Contemporary Art Magazine
Though he shot it 10 years ago, Phillip Toledano's 2004 photography series "Hope & Fear" still rings true a decade later as a diagnosis of our collective fears in 21st-century America. While the artist's recent work, though highly stylized, is mostly documentary, "Hope & Fear" presents a nightmarish fantasy though its elaborate costuming and staging. In each surreal portrait, the sitter becomes subsumed in a substance or object that represents a specific societal problem or common anxiety taken to the extreme.