Here To There : A Businessman’s Photos of Life On the Road

“You don’t know whether it’s your intuition or something beneath the level of your conscious perception, but a tiny bell goes off in your head and you listen to it”

– Clark Winter

 

In a long career in finance in which he travelled the world, Clark Winter’s took pictures. And his eye was drawn towards people and our cars.

It began while in college in Ohio in the early 1970s, when Winter often explored the small, rural roads near his campus. He hitchhiked around the US and worked in Spain, India and France.

 

While hitchhiking from Ohio to Washington DC, Winter and a friend caught a ride with a man driving a flatbed truck. “It’s been 50 years, but I still remember how curious and inquisitive the driver was,” says Winter. ‘” leaned back and took this picture while we were barrelling down the highway, deep in conversation.”

 

 “This photo is about the quiet moment when you’re weighing your options, before you make a decision,’ he says. In the past, he’d come to this fork and had always turned to the right. ‘This time, I took the road less travelled”

– Clark Winter

 

 

“Visually, there was so much going on,’ he says. ‘It was like an operatic scenario with the blue square, the yellow circle, the clock, the window, the mirror, the driver, my reflection”

– Clark Winter

 

“It was supposed to be celebratory, but these Shriners – six of them crammed into the convertible – just seemed confused. Sitting on the bucket seats, they looked obedient and baffled”

– Clark Winter

 

 

 

 Here to There: Photographs from the Road Ahead by Clark Winter is published by Damiani Books.