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