Collection from the Road

While studying the ever-growing variety of photography at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, I was constantly struck by the subject matter of the American landscape - it's natural landscape, economic landscape, and social landscape. It's vast make up of familiar images unfazed by familiarity fueled a youthful desire and innocent rebelliousness to take a risk and start the beginning of an always progressing body of work of my own. Although not always living the romanticized dream of life on the road, I found that taking what I had learned miles and miles away evolved and fit together with a more focused vision of images from local places, realizing that the romanticism of the "American landscape" doesn't always have to mean places people are familiar with or expecting.