Trucks

This body of work started as a reckoning with nostalgia for the Motor City after moving to Portland, Oregon. The salt-free roads, temperate climate, and low mileage of Portland city life has preserved so many of these old trucks that they seem to be on every block. Once I started thinking about the phenomenon as a photo project, it developed into an obsession which was constantly prodded every time I left home (or sometimes even a chance glimpse out of a window). I began to see interesting trucks everywhere and I became more interested in uninteresting trucks everywhere. Some of them jumped right off the curb at me by manner of their sheer defiance in the face of decades of use. Others left me wondering what the lives of these vehicles and their owners were like. What warrants parallel parking and maintaining a 40 year old Ford while living in an apartment in inner Southeast Portland? I also found myself questioning the limits and definition of what a truck even is. From Subaru Bajas to semi truck cabs, I found myself stopping and considering “Is this a truck?”

This series has now had a foothold in my mind for over a decade, with my obsession cropping up constantly as I have traveled around the country. Now, I am currently pursuing a new chapter in this work that will be of a more precise and deliberate nature, but at the same time inviting an element of the unknown as subjects are carefully chosen and sought out with the involvement of their owners.