WHITE LINE FEVER
A photographic exploration of optimism versus ambivalence
Initially motivated by a Kerouac inspired romanticism of life 'on the road’, Nick began shooting empty Australian roads as landscapes around 2011. In the converging lines of the asphalt, he saw optimism; exploration, adventure and possibility at every crest, beyond each horizon.



But how might those associations change with time and familiarity, he wondered? If driving vast distances was your job and those white lines whipping by signified nothing more exotic than a deadline. Would promise turn to purgatory? What romance would remain after hours, days, years at the wheel? And so he began to visit truck stops and rest stops, aspiring to juxtapose his utopian roads with portraits of the faces that are exposed to the view more than any of us. The truck driver. In this his first solo photographic exhibition, portraits of truckies faced off with his optimistic landscapes, in an exploration of relationships with the open road.