BUY for CHRISTMAS £20 signed & dedicated. ON THE ROAD AGAIN. MIDDLE AMERICA URBAN LANDSCAPE USA

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America, continent of idiosyncrasy, captured in the raw over a period of thirty years and photographed with refreshing candour and affectionate humour.

This is a very personal picture, a unique glimpse of everyday 'down home' America without the cellophane wrapping. A journal in pictures and words of an America which seems scarcely to have changed as photographs flow seamlessly across the decades.

Homer Sykes has turned this immense country of vast spaces and...
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America, continent of idiosyncrasy, captured in the raw over a period of thirty years and photographed with refreshing candour and affectionate humour.

This is a very personal picture, a unique glimpse of everyday 'down home' America without the cellophane wrapping. A journal in pictures and words of an America which seems scarcely to have changed as photographs flow seamlessly across the decades.

Homer Sykes has turned this immense country of vast spaces and ordinary people into an intimate album of everyday encounters. With a keenly tuned eye and a sense of the absurd, his art is to turn the mundane into the surreal, to infuse the normal with a sense of humour and elevate it to the extraordinary.

All the photographs have been taken on a Leica M3 fitted with a 50mm Leitz Wetzlar Summilux lens. On The Road Again has been sponsored by Leica Camera Limited.

These photographs were taken in the summer holidays of 1969 while I was at college, and then in 1971 and then put away for thirty years. Two further road trips were made in 1999 and 2001.

THE SUNDAY TIMES NEWSPAPER, "... a quirky humorous book...".

BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINE, " ...Homer Sykes is a natural storyteller, whether it be in words or pictures. Reading it is like watching a movie. It's warm, intimate, delightfully observed, and refreshingly different."

THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY, "... On the Road Again is an awfully good book; one that really does do the job it was intended to do."

THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE, "... His book of photographs, with a commentary, records what changed and what (a lot) stayed the same in American life between the close of the Sixties and the turn of the Millennium. The outcome is a quirky, offbeat album of everyday surrealism, inflected by the "street" photography of Robert Frank or Gary Winogrand but always with a distinctive signature."
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