The Americans I Met

‘The Americans I Met’ is a photographic and oral history project that collects portraits of, and conversations with, people photographer Viktor Hübner encountered during a series of hitchhiking trips across the United States. With only his camera, audio recorder, and a few provisions, he covered 41 states and over 26,000 km over a period of two years. Throughout Viktor’s travels, he embraced chance encounters and relied, every day and every night, on the hospitality of the people he met. As a result, and because of his status as a foreigner, he became an eye-witness to the practical and spiritual lives of many Americans, and a bearer of many confidences. This project focuses on the people Viktor met on his travels, their words, their experiences, and, by extension, the ‘Trump era’ in which they live. *Please visit my website to find a detailed visualization of my hitchhiking routes across the United States