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neighborhood, with dirty windows
This was the view from my hotel room in Needles, California. And while I don’t want to imply that the whole town looked like this, this scene is…not out of character with other things I observed and/or photographed.
As a reminder, you can see more of this collaborative project, with VC Torneden, at Facebook, Instagram, and on our website.
And The Other Side will be on exhibit at Living Arts of Tulsa beginning April 5.
along Route 66
Needles, California
photographed 6.1.2023
spiderman
In the summer of 2021, I was having an Instagram conversation with another photographer, VC Torneden, whom I’d been following for a while. During the conversation, she asked me if I’d like to collaborate with her on a project she held dear – documentation of Route 66. I said yes immediately. At that point the idea was that we’d photograph the route through Texas and Oklahoma. Later (but not much later, actually) that expanded to shooting the entire Chicago-to-Santa Monica route. And then the project found a name – The Other Side – and a whole adventure was born.
Route 66 has been photographed many times over the decades. However, we were interested in taking a deeper look, concentrated on the chronically overlooked miles by predominantly bypassing the tourist attractions and instead seeking to find – and document – the quotidian, the overlooked, the forgotten along America’s highway: the other side of the road.
And now we are happy to announce that Living Arts of Tulsa will host an exhibit of 222 photos from our project. The show will be up from April 1-22, with an official opening on Friday, April 5. If you’re in the area, we’d love for you to stop by and see the show.
In the meantime, we’ve got starts of a Facebook page, an Instagram account, and a website.
As you can imagine, we've been pretty busy getting ready for the show, so the social media things haven't yet gotten the attention they need – but we’ll get there. But please, if you're interested in seeing more of our work and learning about our project, please follow along on any of the options.
along Route 66
Wilmington, Illinois
photographed 7.1.2022
karate
Y’all! I know for sure I am a complete dork about some things. Like the way having a karate place in a town that’s got the word “dodge” in the name completely cracked me up.
Dodge City, Kansas
photographed 12.12.2020
bill
Here lies Bill, according to that sign painted on the brick wall. I don’t have any reason to doubt it.
And I guess that our departed friend Bill found it necessary to leave behind a styrofoam carry-out container, thereby confirming the suspicion that you can’t take it with you.
Galena, Kansas
photographed 1.28.2023
century bridge
My dad was a civil engineer; his specialty was water- and sewage-treatment. It was not uncommon when we were on vacation that he’d drive us to a treatment plant that was of particular interest to him. (And: they held little to no interest to me.)
He also like bridges; once when I lost out on a summer job because of a late-spring bout of mono, he took me with him on a business trip as some sort of a consolation. Along the way, we stopped to look at a bridge that had recently been washed out in a flood. He told me about the design flaws that had put the bridge in peril. (And: that held little to no interest to me.)
Yet somehow I ended up here, getting myself quite interested in this bridge. It’s called the Rainbow Bridge (named before that term’s current connotation) and it’s 100 years old this year. It is only one lane wide and is a single-span design called a Marsh arch, after its designer James Barney Marsh. And, it’s the only surviving bridge of this design on the entire 2,448 miles of Route 66.
near Baxter Springs, Kansas
photographed 4.5.2023
One Day | One Image 