USA –
Into the Midwest
In August 2022, I had the opportunity to visit some of the most amazing and yet strange places in North America. I traveled with my father for almost a month through eleven states. Our journey began in Chicago. From there we took the California Zephyer Transcontinental Train and traveled for 38 hours along the endless fields of the Great Plains and across the Colorado Rockies to the Mormon desert capitol of Salt Lake City.
Continuing from the Salt Lake area, we threw our belongings, which in my case consisted mostly from camera gear, into a small campervan and hit the road. We came across some more and some less touristy places, some of them known from big hollywood movies like «2001: A Space Odyssey» or indie experimental productions like «Koyaanisqatsi».
I knew that I liked landscape photography but I was so impressed and inspired by what I saw in the Midwest. I had been to the USA a few times before, but I had never perceived the country as complex as it is. Through this style of traveling, becoming part of the camper community and actually talking to Americans about almost everything going right and wrong in the country, I got to know a completely new side.
Continuing from the Salt Lake area, we threw our belongings, which in my case consisted mostly from camera gear, into a small campervan and hit the road. We came across some more and some less touristy places, some of them known from big hollywood movies like «2001: A Space Odyssey» or indie experimental productions like «Koyaanisqatsi».
I knew that I liked landscape photography but I was so impressed and inspired by what I saw in the Midwest. I had been to the USA a few times before, but I had never perceived the country as complex as it is. Through this style of traveling, becoming part of the camper community and actually talking to Americans about almost everything going right and wrong in the country, I got to know a completely new side.
