My mission as an artist is to seek, document and share experiences. Earlier this year, I was an Artist in Residence at Burley Middle School in Albemarle County, Virginia. I presented photographs from the Empire Builder route of myI Ride Trains project. First, students described 14 different photographs from the train route through a sensory exercise. Next, they were asked to write a journal entry, newspaper article, letter or essay based on the imagery. On the third day, we captured photographs traveling by bus throughout Charlottesville, Virginia. It was such a fulfilling experience to watch over 70 middle school students engage with their environment through photography.
My project was a Kickstarter staff pick and was noted on there blog.
Thank you everyone for your support.
I Ride Trains: Photographing America, by Stacey Evans
I
love Stacey's project because I want to live through her vicariously.
The Virginia-based photographer has made a career out of riding trains,
traversing wide swaths of the American landscape in order to capture it
via photographs and videos taken from rocking train car windows. She's
taken fourteen trips so far, resulting in an impressive collection of
imagery that explores the American landscape, and how people "co-exist
with other humans, architecture, and nature." What a life! And her next
trip will be her longest yet, beginning in her homebase of
Charlottesville and ending all the way in Los Angeles. I'll back because
I want to be there every step (train track?) of the way! — Cassie M.
