Road to Midwest

• Prize
  Silver in Analog / Film/Editorial / Journalism
• Photographer
  Sebastian Bahr
• Technical Info
  Cameras: Mamiya 7 Ii & Pentax 67 Ii // Film Stock: Kodak Portra 160, 400 & 800
• Photo Date
  2025

My mission is to document the Midwest of the United States — to give viewers an understanding of how the people who work there, primarily in agriculture, open-pit mining, and the oil business, live their daily lives. Which roads they drive along, and what they see when they look out of their (car) windows. That what is nostalgic, exotic and exciting for us is also reality for these people. Not always as romantically charged as we perceive it to be when we look at it. And that this life, this everyday life, shapes a person differently than life in an American or even European metropolis.