Wheels

I grew up in an era when getting your driver's license was one of the most significant events of your teenage years. A car meant freedom — the ability to go where you wanted, when you wanted, without asking anyone. That was no small thing.

Cars have always been more than transportation in this country. They are culture, status, aspiration, and identity all at once. The design of a 1959 Cadillac — those tail fins — was not just engineering. It was a statement about who Americans thought they were and where they thought they were headed. Those designs became icons, and for good reason.

These photographs are my response to that world — the cars, the trucks, the motorcycles, the culture built around them. I find them endlessly interesting as subjects: the shapes, the chrome, the color, the way they occupy space. There is history in every one of them.