His work leverages traditional documentary practices incorporating image and text to interact with and comment on often unseen physical and informational systems. Ress first became interested in photography under the influence of the extensive archive of FSA photographs in Lousiville’s Speed Museum. His project America Recovered: A Survey of the ARRA looks to reconsider the FSA legacy in the context of the 2009 economic collapse and subsequent stimulus legislation. America Recovered was accepted to Photo Santa Fe, awarded distinction by The Forward Thinking Museum, and published in Time Magazine and Harper’s. Ress recently competed a fellowship with the Center for Social Cohesion and Arizona State University, in conjunction with the New America Foundation. The resulting archive of images documents where Americans go—when not at work or at home—to find a sense of community and connection to place.