In 2007, 25 Dutch architects, landscape architects, scientists, artists, photographers, writers and philosophers of all ages and experience took on a journey to research the context of the American Landscape.

From the 'Green Guerilla's' on occupied vacant plots in NYC, from Central Park to the squares of Manhattan, from the last original prairiegrounds around Chicago to it’s architectural masterpieces, from the Mall in Washington DC to the National Parks of Arizona.

Around 50.000 (!) pictures were shot by all participants: observations and memories. In coöperation with the Monriaan Fund (fml. Foundation BKVB) in Amsterdam (NL), I collected and edited all images with one goal: a reflection of 'American Space' and how photography intervenes and dictates our understanding of reality.

For every 1/25 of a second (1 frame of video) I assigned one seperate picture. All images were ordened chronologically. Monitor, 2008 is the resulting experience: a chronologic photographic experiment and 5m29s of the Power Of Place.

Frank van der Salm, Monitor, a photographic experiement, 2008