Beautiful medium format shots of Anthony Gerace's US road trip

While images of all-American signs baking in the heat are nothing new, there’s something very alluring about the shots captured by Anthony Gerace on a recent 40 day US road trip. The venture was a pilgrimage of sorts to photograph Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty in Utah, a huge earthwork sculpture constructed in 1970 by the sculptor.

“The whole point of the project was to immerse myself in the kind of collapsed and strange places that exist at the peripheries of America, places that were hard to get to and were weird and broken and that I found myself becoming really fond of over the weeks of constant movement,” Anthony tells us.

“I’d been living in London for two years and wanted to experience things that I hadn’t experienced before, and to capture those experiences and try to make something out of them, and to follow in the road trip tradition of all of the photographers who got me into taking pictures in the first place.”

The images were shot using Anthony’s dad’s old Hasselblad camera on medium format film, and the heat and adventure permeate the images’ rich colours and the huge expanses we’re presented with. “A lot of what made me want to take pictures in the first place were the trips [my father] and my mother would take, and so the work had the added benefit of connecting me to them when they were my age, doing these things,” Anthony adds.