325.American Safari 1999During the summer of 1999, an English writer, Joe Patch, and I, an American photographer, drove over 15,000 miles along with Louis Baker, Joes son and an Australian boxer. Together in a Jeep Wrangler, we traveled the country in search of people and places that would make our trip into what we had hoped, a safari into American culture. During these three months on the road, we met people from all walks of life and a vast number of cultures. We hope these images and words will express what we found, our diversity as a nation and the kindness and sense of community that was predominate. Our positive experience offers up the opposite to the negative picture of American society painted by our countries news media.
The whole story written by Joe Patch with a little bit by Cris Yarborough, is available here: (Cut and paste)
http://home.comcast.net/yarbz/Odyssey_combo.doc
All images were captured using Kodak and Fuji color reversal film.
Our sincere thanks to all who helped us along the way. Your kindness and hospitality was most appreciated.
There are still 20 or so images that I need to locate to add to this gallery. For some reason, I am missing some of my favorites...
