From The Eye of Photography:
In Orange Blossom Trail, American writer George Saunders and American photographer Joshua Lutz offer an alternately poetic and searing evocation of the cruelty and tender beauty of contemporary American life. The book is published by Ithaca Press.
Lutz and Saunders first met on a magazine assignment, where they discovered a shared interest in both the psychological and material conditions of the laboring individual and the Buddhist teachings of attachment and the sacredness of existence.
Through Lutz’s recent photos, and three texts selected by Saunders from different moments in his career, the book asks, when do we zoom in and when do we zoom out from the individual lives whose labor supports other lives. Revealing the stark realities behind the idyllic narrative of Florida’s orange groves, Orange Blossom Trail is a meditation, in two voices, on the alienation of the industrialized landscape and the brutality of American inequality.