Block Humery – Ice

Born 1971, Thomas Block Humery is a Franco-German artist who lives and works in his native Paris. He holds a master’s degree in film studies from Panthéon-Sorbonne University.

After a decade of photographic work focused on youth living in the Nordic, in 2010 Humery began to explore the United States under the pretense of ‘The Great American Vernacular Encyclopedia,’ a project exploring the American territory as an ordinary and transcendent experience.

In his wanderings with a 4×5 chamber camera, Humery navigates the mundane as an enigmatic source of mystery and poetic elevation – a world both literal and cryptic. Available through Marguo Books, three different volumes recount Humery’s voyage across the Gulf South, Nevada, and Arizona desert — travel logs foraged from the people, scenes, and stories encountered.