Before his untimely death, British photographer Michael Ormerod travelled the US in a VW camper van, taking thought-provoking photographs of unnamed places
A new exhibition and book feature previously unseen photographs taken in the US by Michael Ormerod . Ormerod was a British photographer whose life was tragically cut short in August 1991 by a road accident on his last field trip to the US.
As the author Geoff Dyer suggests in the book’s text, they are ‘free-standing’. They depict roads to nowhere, unremarkable towns, vanishing points, in-between places – an indeterminate and state-less AmericaThe book’s title is a nod to Walker Evans’s seminal book American Photographs and to the road trip as a staple of American photographic exploration and style .
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