On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions. From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
This series was created by Alain Chamot (1971-2020).
Steve from Mendocino
OzarkHillbilly
Good shit. Love the “eye” pic, very evocative.
And that 2nd pic? Yeppers.
HinTN
@OzarkHillbilly: Agree – every one of them is evocative of strong emotion.
cope
Back in a previous lifetime when I used to shoot B&W, these are the kinds of pictures I was always trying to get. I never did. I’m glad you did and showed them to us, thanks.
JanieM
Well. In light of yesterday and the past four years, the first one looks like a kind of celebration: a nation battered and aging (?), but still here.
They’re all mesmerizing, but of the b/w set I’m most drawn to the barbed wire and Ferris wheel. It begs to have stories woven around it
The last one is simply beautiful.
JanieM
P.S. Rorschach indeed.
Steve from Mendocino
@JanieM: That picture of the Ferris wheel and barbed wire was taken in 1969. The Viet Nam war was very much on my mind, as I was draft bait except for my student deferment. The circumstances of the subject were entirely innocent, but, as I have in this series, I wanted to create a sinister ambiguity. This is the only photo I ever submitted for publication, other than football shots in the high school paper. It appeared on the back page of the L.A. Free Press.
@JanieM: