Kate and Odie© Marie Tomanova “In these faces is the young American I want to be” – Czech photographer Marie Tomanova talks us through her debut monograph, Young American, ahead of its launch at Los Angeles Art Book Fair April 11, 2019 Capturing the ‘real’ America might sound like a challenge of epic proportions, but it came naturally to Marie Tomanova, whose debut monograph, Young American, sees the Czech Republic-born photographer train her lens on the country’s contemporary youth culture.