Kristin Carlson Portfolio
Photography :: Longing the Landscape
These photos were inspired by the inordinate affection many individuals possess for familiar roadside architecture. By shooting such structures in a reverent or imaginative manner, I hoped to do them some small sort of honor, especially since the best of such sites are often the most endangered.

This work was exhibited in May 2003 at Rhode Island School of Design along with 26 copies of a small artist's book on the same subject. The book describes the driving experience as follows:

If a place is not a place
but instead a line connecting points that are too brief to be real places
then trucks exceed trains,
making roads into places.


Each photo is a chromogenic print and measures either 16 x 16 or 20 x 20 inches.

To see these photos displayed in the gallery at RISD along with the artist's books, click here.

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