Photographing America - The Open Road

Road Trip Photography Prints - Americana

A new batch of American photographs from the last couple road trips around the country. This series has gotten increasingly overwhelming from an archive perspective. It’s probably the largest series to date, but also the one I’ve done the least with. And by “least”, I mean nothing. So to look at it as a whole feels like a monumental tasks to make sense of for a book or any other publication. Guess it’s time to turn things over to a professional??!!

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El Capitan Casino in Hawthorne, Nevada - Photo — Hawthorne, Nevada

Photo of the Honolulu Club bar in Yucca, Arizona - vintage sign. — Honolulu Club - Yucca, Arizona

McDonald's billboard and other signs in the desert landscape outside Tuba City, Arizona - Photo — Tuba City, Arizona

A small town graveyard with wind turbines in the background in southern Iowa — Southern Iowa

A Little League baseball field in the small farm town of Griswold, Iowa — Griswold, Iowa

Photo of a broken down truck in front of a factory in Big Island, Virginia — Big Island, Virginia

A baseball field in front of farm silos in Mountain Home, Idaho - Photo - Rob Hammer — Mountain Home, Idaho

Photo of a palm tree, power lines, and clouds in the California desert — California Desert

Vintage Whiting Bros sign in the small town of Yucca, Arizona — Whiting Bros - Yucca, Arizona

Photo of an old theater in Hawthorne, Nevada — Old movie theater - Hawthorne, Nevada

The Lovelock Speedway in Lovelock, Nevada - Photo — Lovelock Speedway - Lovelock, Nevada

Interior of an old shoe shop in Texarkana, Texas - photo — Shoe shop - Texarkana

An empty pool in a small town neighborhood near Griswold, Iowa — Griswold, Iowa

Photographs of American Culture

Hard to believe this project has been going on for 10 years now. You’d think after publishing a couple books on the subject, the desire to photograph barbershops would go away. Apparently not. What a journey it’s been and continues to be. Here are a few made over the past 6 months or so. The first shot of the Commercial Barbershop in Elko is actually a shop I photographed 8 or 9 years ago when it was in full swing. Unfortunately, it is no more. Sad, but that is exactly why I started this project.