FIRST PLACE ©Garrett Grove, Joe, on his way to North Dakota. Pomeroy, WA, USA. 2016

“Think this is such an amazing photograph.  It reminds me of images from the Farm Security Administration like Dorthea Lange and Walker Evans.  The light and tonality is fantastic and I enjoy the confusion it creates around the theme of a road trip.  Is this man and his dog on a  road trip?  Do they live like this? What is all that stuff in the car and why is it strewn about?” – Shawn Bush

Many thanks to our stellar juror, Shawn Bush, whose own project, Golden State, lives in the Road Trip realm. Shawn also recently took his own road trip from Rhode Island to Wyoming where he will begin teaching this fall. We had so many fantastic submissions and it was a treat to go through all your offerings.

We wish you the best summer, on and off the road, and are thrilled to present The 2018 Road Trip Exhibition!

SECOND PLACE ©Elsa Leydier, Burning bush, Provence, France

“This is simply a beautiful photograph.  Again, I enjoy a different take on the theme of a road trip.  For me, road trips are as much about passing as they are about existing in destination(s).  This photo makes me think about temporal permanence in relation to a journey.” – Shawn Bush

THIRD PLACE WINNER © Will Douglas, US Brokedown, Malibu, CA

HONORABLE MENTION ©Alberto Mesirca, Umm Al Zomool Road, United Arab Emirates

HONORABLE MENTION ©Dominic Palarchio, Shell Fire, Valmy, NV

HONORABLE MENTION, ©Stephen Snowder, Girl in Camaro, McAlester, OK

HONORABLE MENTION ©Michelle Lee Delgado, Bosque de la Primavera, Jalisco, Mexico

HONORABLE MENTION ©Rachael McArthur, Sparkler. Clarksdale, Mississippi

HONORABLE MENTION ©David Zurick, Arrival, Fakaofo Atoll, Tokelau

©Alex Rose, Follow Me, Snæfellsnes peninsula, Iceland http://alex-rose.com/

©Amy Parrish, Places I Slept, Wendover, Utah

©Chance DeVille, Waffle House, Somewhere in Texas

©Chris Bentley, Red Stripe, Santa Fe, NM

©Cristina Fontsaré, Julia, 2011, Empordà, Catalonia

©Dianna Moran, Skipping Rocks, Bar Harbor, ME

© Dora Kontha, Wanderlust, Iceland

© Elizabeth Albert, Breakaway, Locations Unkown

©Nuno Serrão, Enveloped By Shades of Green, Madeira Island, Portugal

©Gabriela Gleizer, Katamon Riders, Jerusalem, Israel

©Helen Jones,Wild fire air, Steens Mountain, Oregon

©Istvan Jobbagy, Untitled, Jabal Hafeet, UAE

©Ashley Jones, Roadside Globe– Georgia, Savannah, GA

©Keith Prue, Just in Time, Montevideo Uruguay

©Leonard Correa, Bryce Canyon, Ivins, Utah,

©Michael Joseph “Alister & Sherie” New Orleans, LA

©Mike Whiteley, The Freedom Rock, Menlo, IA

©Oliver Raschka, THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH… #66, Stuttgart (Germany)

©Robin Alysha Clemens, One Mile Away, Utrecht, The Netherlands

©Yorgos Efthymiadis, Deer, Kennebunk, ME

Shawn Bush, is an artist living and working in Wyoming. He recently received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. In his work Shawn appropriates tropes of popular culture to construct one-off worlds curated from reality. Focusing on habitual representations controlled by Western structures and institutions, Bush’s photographs challenge the systems that define identity and merit in contemporary America. Bush has been shown in galleries in Chicago, Denver, Boston, San Francisco and Athens, Greece. His debut artist book The Process of Meaning and Worth is the recipient of the Manifest Gold Book award and is included in the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s permanent collection. He most recent artist book A Golden State has been included in the Candella Gallery permanent collection, Fleet Library Special Collections and will be released as a trade edition in 2018.