14 Days - Artists & Management - Road Trip 2004 - Map of Tour - Touring Information

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A photographic journey of discovery exploring the awakening of a new American generation

After two years of planning Gibbons took a fourteen day non-stop road trip across America during the summer of 2004. This was a creative project examining people and places through portrait and documentary. The trip was carefully planned across fourteen days and fourteen locations where people were photographed and documented by professional camera crews. The culmination of this road trip will be the production of some 1,400 dynamic studio-setting and crowd portraits by photographers David William Gibbons and Richard Knapp. Two documentary crews studied and recorded the events in detail with the goal of creating a mini series or short film feature. Following the selection by Gibbons and subsequent portraits that were produced at each venue, a documentary crew undertook short interviews of those who had been chosen for this record. A second documentary crew followed Gibbons and studied the interaction and dialogue as he selected his subjects. Both crews also documented the period of arrival and departure from locations as well as the legs between towns and cities.

David Gibbons the original conceptual and creative process behind the project managed the crew on this historical trip. As an Englishman with a unique view he was to be the force behind the selection of subjects. He will produce the narrative accompanying portraits in a coffee table publication due for release within the next two years. The selection of subjects were based upon photographic/artistic considerations and a deliberate choice based upon diversity and the emotional conditions experienced during the day. This challenge reflected social, economic and emotional conditions that he and his crew met at each place from which experiences will be shared through narrative and film. Stark realities will become evident from this in terms of social and economic climate collected from a culturally diverse country. These will be interpreted and reflected in the portraits, film and narrative raising comment and dialogue. The result will be that of inspiring unity and understanding at a time of great uncertainty and change.