Rob Stephenson

This project looks at the landscape of the “Space Coast” of Florida in the wake of the closing of the Space Shuttle program.  With the writing of JG Ballard as inspiration, these photos inhabit the  realm between dream and reality depicting a nostalgia for the future as the promise of the Space Age slowly fades away.

Published in 2019, Myths of the Near Future is in the collections of the MoMA Library and the Amon Carter museum. The work was been widely exhibited and featured in WIRED magazine.