In the 1930's, the U.S. government commissioned an agency to combat poverty entitled the Farm Security Administration. The FSA did many things but it's legacy is best known for the massive amount of photographs taken by the likes of Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Gordon Parks and many more. However, those images were curated by a man named Roy Stryker and in an attempt to prevent some of the less desirable images from making their way out into the public, he hole-punched straight through the original negatives, assuming this would be enough to sway anyone from ever using the image.

But he was wrong. Bill McDowell combed through the massive archive of hole-punched photos and created a beautiful collection of images with an ominous presence of nothingness.

Many thanks to Mr. Kleon for the heads up and the brilliant comparison to the work of John Baldessari. Go have a look.