Things Were Never Normal

The Village Diner, Milford, Pennsylvania. © Leah Frances

Things Were Never Normal Ashley McNelis

Ashley McNelis explores the relationships between an idealized past, ongoing crises, and an uncertain future within Leah Frances’s photographs of Pennsylvania diners.

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