

From 2006 through 2010, Lucas Flogia traveled throughout the southeastern United States befriending, photographing, and interviewing a network of people who left cities and suburbs to live off the grid. Motivated by environmental concerns, religious beliefs, or predictions of economic collapse. His subjects build their homes from local materials, obtain their water from nearby springs, and hunt, gather, or grow their own food.
Lucas tells us the people in his photographs are working to maintain a self-sufficient lifestyle, but no one he found lives in complete isolation from the mainstream. Many of his subjects have websites that they update using laptop computers, and cell phones that they charge on car batteries or solar panels. They do not wholly reject the modern world. Instead, they step away from it and choose the parts that they want to bring with them.
Lately I have been feeling inspired by these groups that have decided standing at the margins of the ordinary way of life. I really feel like taking pictures to their everyday life and environments, so that I can get to understand their interpretation about society by contemplating their cultural attitudes and practices.