Joseph Calvo Joseph Calvo

My First Photo Road Trip

This series follows a 5-day journey I took with Roarie and Riona up into Southern California, through Nevada, and up through Utah. We visited incredible structures and sites within nature and their human form melded with forms in nature.

The US is a gigantic country and I’ve seen very little of it. So when Roarie mentioned she had an opening for a photo trip I leapt at the opportunity. Roarie was traveling with Riona and the trip would be 5 days of driving, camping, and photographing. Roarie had done a lot of scouting in the western states and she created an itinerary based on things I was interested in and the best times of days to arrive and shoot at those locations. We departed from southern California and made our way a few hours north, we then traveled east through the bottom tip of Nevada, into Utah and up through the state. It was an incredible trip that was the highlight of my year.

Film stocks: Portra 160, Portra 400, Portra 800, Acros 100, Agfa Ultra Color 100

Cameras: Pentax 67 II, Contax G2

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