In 2019, François Prost embarked on a road trip across the United States. But instead of visiting national parks or exploring major cities, he chose to take his camera along the strip club circuit, from Miami to Los Angeles, in broad daylight. The resulting series, Gentlemen's Club, takes a close look at American culture and urbanism. Shot from a medium distance, these 200 photos highlight the stark geometry of American highway architecture, as well as prevailing views on gender and sexuality. This work follows in the footsteps of the same photographer's After Party series, which compiles hundreds of images of nightclub facades taken in daylight across France. Many people at the time assumed these images had been taken in the United States (most of these nightclubs drew their architectural and stylistic references from postwar American pop culture). It was therefore quite natural for the photographer to return to the United States to continue this work.

THE AUTHOR François Prost is a Parisian photographer and art director born in Lyon in 1980. When he is not working for editorial or commercial clients, he devotes his time to personal photographic projects, documenting the facades of local French nightclubs, machine gun shops in the United States, Chinese scooters, or similarities between European cities and their Chinese replicas.

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