Shane Westerfield, Olive Branch, MS, 2009 [from "Hurry Up and Wait"]
© Tribble & Mancenido
The collaborative team Tribble & Mancenido (James Tribble and Tracey Mancenido) got in touch to share with me their project Hurry Up and Wait, a series of photographs exploring the “obscure and anonymous life of America’s trucking culture.” They go on:
Driving for a year in our own tractor-trailer, we focus on the banal repetition and periods of isolation from constant movement on the road. These images are a byproduct of the world we entered and a glimpse of the places eighteen-wheelers are allowed. We are constantly faced with the same landscape regardless of location, from moments of obliged waiting in truck stops to backing into the docks of a warehouse. This is where we photograph. We showcase the openness of the road and the lonesome journey of the driver, hoping our images bring new light to the harsh beauty in the world of a truck driver.
Though some of the other images don’t quite feel resolved to me, I think the portraits of the drivers isolated in grass/concrete are very interesting.
View the project as it unfolds here.
