Taco Stop

DESCRIPTION Archival ink on museum-quality cotton rag paper | 2022 Being on the road, taking photos, is a lonely part of James Needham’s process. For his new series, Traveling Home, Needham drove and walked in chosen directions, photographing anything that caught his eye. For the Australian photographer, it is akin to a pleasant meditative state where the goal is to block out anything but small glimpses of beauty. The result, he says, is a lot of trash and the occasional treasure. One such treasure, Taco Stop, the first offering from the upcoming Traveling Home series, is offered in four sizes and is reminiscent of Edward Hopper’s colorful city scenes, each one deliberately composed to create a mood. Taco Stop is a quirky photo collage that takes an image of a Coney Island sign—actually photographed in Boston—and places it on a building photographed in Spain in front of a Texas sky. Photography is typically thought of as a medium that captures one location during a single moment in ti