Vaughan in Yosemite: California 1998
Edition of 10.
My American Road began about 25 years ago fueled by desires to escape into another World of Bruce Springsteen, Jack Kerouac's Denver Days, Midnight Cowboy, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Graduate, the relentless draw of New York and its noise and an enduring search for a great hamburger and a Budweiser ... KIng of Beer's.
I listened to Donald Fagan singing about 'Driving West on Sunset' and thought ... where's Sunset, I have to go there and 'Drive West' , so I did. Moving forward I shot countless jobs in the U.S and along the way collected a file of personal work which I buried for another day. Images were for the most part shot between 3am and 8am when the great theatre is empty and the audience are still asleep. America unfolds every day, the light emerging from the East, pouring itself over the landscapes and slicing through the highrise of the cities. You just have to be awake to catch it all, and its still out there just beyond the City Limits and I'm still going on this one, the last pictures being taken in Chicago just prior to Lockdown in 2020 and the next, when we're set free to move once again.
This is 'America Before 8am'