God and War (Inheritance). © Shane Rocheleau
"White American masculinity is a construct," writes Shane Rocheleau about his latest book You Are Masters Of The Fish And Birds And All The Animals. "It is the subtext in detergent and power tool ads, crystallized at football games and in sermons...it undergirds our politics and religiosity, and permeates our homes. And it’s scary." Rocheleau's book, which was published by Gnomic Books earlier this year, is a collection of three years of photographs sewn into a somber, poetic meditation on the pitfalls of contemporary American male identity.