With no money coming in and gas prices at an all-time high, I took off on a cross-country road trip. I didn’t have a set plan of where to go or what to shoot; I just knew that I wanted to travel and take photos before I returned to New York to start a new chapter in my career.
It was a fantastic experience. I tried to shoot a portrait every day, and I ultimately shot about 70 portraits of people I met along the way. These images are of whoever I came across: a biker at a rest stop in California, a priest at a church in New Mexico, prisoners on work release in Texas, squatters at Slab City, a stripper in Portland, a fly fisherman in Montana and many more.—Roger Kisby
Roger Kisby is a New York-based portrait and editorial photographer who recently quit his job in advertising to pursue a career in photography.
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love the work, wonderful shots, inspiring.
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It was when I saw Cimino’s “The Deerhunter” that I first understood it is a peculiar and often unhappy dissociation from reality, as compared with Euro art subjects who suspect what’s going on, that makes America. These are oversaturated weirdos, in the American grain.
Great Work,
love his other Work too!
Makes me want to go on a Roadtrip too….