The Accidental Tourist.

Red Car, Nevada, 2000

As a photographer there will always be those images that don’t fit into a series. But over time, these random images form their own project and the random-ness becomes something else other than just ‘Misc’ images. The Accidental Tourist series began some 25 years ago when I first stated making trips to the States. My earliest images from the series were made on a Mamiya 7 medium format film camera, then my ‘snap shot’ camera along side an 8/10”. Fast forward 20 years and you have a body of work that looks at America through the eyes of a Brit. Whats interesting is that jumbled together you really cannot tell if an image was made twenty years ago, or just last week.

Despite feeling very different about America now since those early days of film when I would take random road trips, the way I see things photographically hasn’t changed at all.