Anastasia Samoylova: Image Cities

In her groundbreaking new book, Image Cities, Russian-born, Miami-based photographer Anastasia Samoylova takes you on a visually striking journey through the global landscape of urbanization, where the lines between identity, culture, and architecture blur in an increasingly networked world.

Samoylova’s lens captures the rise of a generic urban landscape, where steel, glass, and concrete dominate, creating cities that feel eerily similar no matter where you are. From Miami to Shanghai, London to São Paulo, her powerful imagery reveals how the forces of neoliberal economics and transnational culture are reshaping our environments—and how photography plays a pivotal role in this transformation.

But there’s more to her work than just empty spaces. Samoylova’s keen eye uncovers the gap between the glossy, branded images of cities marketed as unique destinations and the lived, often mundane realities within them. The result is a stunning visual commentary on the tension between nostalgia and modernity, nationalism and globalism.

With Image Cities, Samoylova shines a light on the new global order, where cities may look the same, but the stories they tell are anything but. It’s a book for anyone interested in how the urban world is being remade—and how we, as individuals, fit into that ever-shifting landscape.

Details

• Hardcover book
• 168 pages 
• Dimensions: 9.5 x 11.75 in.