Research- David Zaitz

This photographer does a lot of commerical work, but his personal project "Texas Road Trip" is great. He really captures what they call the "rust towns" brilliantly. Making them look run down, isolated and often empty. There is the ocassional sign of a personal, usually a shopkeeper he encounters, but it's the buildings and landscape shots I prefer.

He goes with captions beneath the images, which are often informative of the place but sometimes witty. I particularly like the one that goes beneath the below image that says, "Edie, apparently unclear of the concept of customisable signs."




I'm really liking the idea of putting text with my images to enhance the feel, to help explain them or add another dimension to them. I shall get my best mirror/journey shots and try adding text or laying them out somehow.