Philadelphia based photographer Zoe Strauss is interviewed by Will Steacy in the interesting "photo-eye magazine.

One of her projects was America: We Love Having You Here:

Another project is Under I-95”. The project was conceived not just as the taking of photographs of her neighborhood and places that she has known in Philadelphia, but includes a yearly exhibition of more than a hundred of them on the support columns of I-95, the elevated highway that cuts through South Philadelphia. The vast space is accessible on all sides to the surrounding neighborhood, and the photographs are available for $5. The project is meant to continue over the course of 10 years, with the body of photographs refined and added to annually.

The I-95 project began as a documentary, echoing the street photography style of Diane Arbus and Garry Winogrand. Strauss’s photos of shuttered buildings, empty parking lots and vacant meeting halls illuminate her South Philly neighborhood’s grim character.

This is the other “America,” one where people have to deal with a society that provides freedom and nothing else while lavishing its wealth elsewhere. Struass' Flickr stream is here.

Another project is On the Beach about the the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.