Fat people are harder to kidnap by Fraser miles






Fat people are harder to kidnap by Fraser miles.
In 2016 I went to America to assist on a residency at Elsewhere
Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina and take a road trip through the Blue Mountain Ridge parkway and surrounding areas.
Without knowing I would be in a political hot spot for the
American election and begin a lifetime fascination with Appalachia and its history.
Trump was running for president for the first time and it felt like I was in the American dream heartland. High school football games on Friday night, with all the excitement and wonder that you'd hope from America. Marred with racial and social injustice history surrounding me, the Woolworth's sit in was in Greensboro, and it holds an amazing museum dedicated to the education of the black American struggle.
Greensboro is a university town that lost all of its denim
Industry due to the closures at Wrangler jeans. It always felt like
being on a crossroad, like the place and people could go either this way, or that which led me to focus every portrait I took and included in this book to be of someone trying to build something and better there surroundings, that was important for me and formed the groundings of what I chose to do today with my life.
We followed the roads through the blue mountain ridge, staying in
Motels and towns like Asheville, visiting industrial highlights like the Korg factory and Pastors tree house (google it) trying not to get shot or lost in the forest on the way.
This trip really was the start of my artistic career, I had met the love of my life just before I left, I knew i was returning to something
exciting and new which made everything I saw even more exciting and new. Right place, right time kind of thing.
Right place, right time kind of thing.
Hardback binding with golf foilblocked cover.
digitally printed
Sewn binding