Nate Larson (born March 16, 1978) is a Baltimore-based artist and photographer known for investigating contemporary American culture and history.
His 2006 exhibition, "Charlatans and Tricksters" at Real Art Ways, consisted of a series of narrative-based quasi-documentary black-and-white photographs of the "supernormal."
Much of photography's credibility as a popular art form relies on its promise of visual truth, embodied in the axiom that the camera never lies.
But the camera does lie, and frequently, and it is from this starting point that Larson begins to craft his elaborate photographic fictions.
Larson has done preliminary research in all 25 towns and completed five chapters of the project with communities in Ellicott City, Maryland;[12] Bloomington, Indiana; Mascoutah, Illinois; and De Soto, Missouri.
[13] For a 2019 solo exhibition at GRACE, Larson dove deeper into the community of Waterford, Virginia, Centroid Town of 1810.