These Americans is an exhibition of photographs by Will Vogt, presented as part of the 2026 FotoFest Biennial Participating Spaces program in Houston and curated by Guggenheim Foundation Fellow Jennifer Garza-Cuen.

This exhibition brings together photographs from Will Vogt’s first book, These Americans, and his forthcoming monograph Behind the Hedges, to be released this spring and launched internationally at Photo London.

Vogt began photographing his social circle in 1969. Over nearly five decades, he has constructed a complex, unvarnished portrait of American upperclass life. While much of documentary photography has historically focused on hardship or marginalization, Vogt directs his attention toward affluence, rendering its rituals, aesthetics, and patterns of continuity with unusual candor. From coastal homes in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, to ranches in South Texas and British shooting estates, his images move fluidly between the intimate and the grand, operating as both personal archive and cultural document.

Behind the Hedges follows the sensational success of Vogt’s debut monograph and deepens his inquiry into the American elite. Here, the excesses of youth have settled into the measured cadence of tradition. The photographs derive their power from the tension between proximity and distance, forming portraits of a class oriented toward preservation within a nation otherwise defined by reinvention. Vogt depicts a community adept at weathering change while sustaining the habits and structures of its own selfreproduction.

This Houston exhibition marks a rare opportunity to view works from both books in the same space.