The magazine of the photo-essay
September/October 2023 back issue
“A free, really high quality photo-essay magazine. Fabulous!”
Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film maker
by Jason Lee
The pictures in artist, actor and skateboarder, Jason Lee’s forthcoming monograph were made in the summer of 2017
on a drive from his then adopted home state of Texas to Los Angeles, where he’d lived prior and from where he set
out to start photographing from the road in 2006.
TX | CA 17 is the first time Lee has published images from a single outing. They are presented in geographical and
(rough) chronological order—North Texas, NM, AZ, the California desert, and finally DTLA, where we see the gentleman
awaiting his bus. The exposures were made primarily along and surrounding Highways 287, 40/66, 62, and 10.
“Many of these places I’ve come to know quite well, with some documented frequently before and since this particular drive. It’s
always a pleasure revisiting the familiar—these somehow comforting landmarks; these reminders, and equally exciting to
discover new sights, make new pictures, and collect new memories. So you keep going. After sixteen years of photographing
outside, I remain fascinated by the American landscape and all its parts both beautiful and curious.”
- Jason Lee
