Hatchback
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
29x37 inch C-print
2008

Though I recently acquired a size-appropriate car for the kind of work I do, for sixteen years I was wedded to my tiny Honda Civic hatchback, which I would announce to anyone within earshot was "a lot bigger than it looks from the outside." This photograph is proof. I loved working out of the back of this car, though as I got more ambitious in my shooting, it got more and more crowded back there. This particular night it was well past three in the morning when I was packing up my gear to leave (or, as is the case at that time of night, hurling my gear willy-nilly into the back of the car). Something caused me to access the driver's seat while I still had the hatch open, and this was what I saw—the bright lights of a Smoky Mountain tourist town from the Olympian heights of the surrounding mountains