Americana - From Washington D.C. to New York City

As a child, I emigrated to Canada from Eastern Europe. As an adult I emigrated again, to the US. In October of 2016 I became an American citizen and settled in south-eastern Pennsylvania. Here, for more than 400 years, religious refugees from Europe found refuge, most notably the Amish and Mennonites. And I wondered who were the Americans that inhabited various locales, a city , small town, the country . And so I journeyed and photographed from Washington D.C. to New York City, arguable the centers of darkness and light respectively. Washington, with its sense of privilege, New York with its verve, and in the middle, rural Pennsylvania with its small groups. This is a short 10-shot essay of my journey. Most shots were taken unawares, sometimes my presence was known.