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This series was created on long road trips along the Texas Gulf Coast. As cruising on endless highways is something quintessentially American, the car was my preferred means of transportation. For this series, I shot all of my photos directly from the moving car. To create an experience of authenticity, I selected an angle similar to my first impression. Which means: at the height of the car’s dashboard.

My key design principle: I discovered that my choice of motifs wasn’t so much about summer impressions, but rather about that certain morbidity, the melancholy, and the sadness that surrounds the coastal region in November. A mood like something out of a noir film ...

The images were shot exclusively using analogue film and without any technical refinements, essentially ‘unplugged’. The photographic style is documentary: I shoot in full-frame format, meaning there are virtually no cropping or subsequent alterations to the original image.

All of the images in this series were shot with an analog Minolta CLE 35mm viewfinder-camera – mounted with the standard Rokkor 40mm f/2.0 lens. I photographed both on T-MAX film at 400 ASA and, in the fastest version, at 3200 ASA.