“Impossible you say?”

This was the slogan from a 1967 Amphicar advert. These futuristic visions, their design originating in wartime Germany, were intended to supplant themselves into the 1960’s utopian dream of America. Conceptualized and marketed, yet ultimately a failure as the ‘car of the future’, only 3878 were manufactured. They have, however, enjoyed a resurgence, becoming unlikely symbols of a ‘better’ time.

Photographers Ossi Piispanen and Edmund Fraser joined the largest ‘amphimeet’ to date in Mt Dora, Florida, on a journey across post-Trump America. Their ambition was to document the heart of nostalgia and understand, in complex political times, these Jetson-esque objects and their owners.

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  Ossi Piispanen