As a ‘professor of photography working in the USA, the late-great Robert Frank and his book, The Americans, often pops up in lectures and discussion. Usually, after discussing the motives behind the work, Guggenheim’s etc, attention is given to the fact that the edit took over a year to do. Most students are horrified by this after hearing how such-and-such edited their books in 30 minutes (nothing to brag about there). But when you consider Frank had over 27,000 images (from 767 rolls of film) with an edit down to the final 83 iconic shots, I thought it would have taken longer..

It has taken me around 3 months to edit The accidental Tourist from about 500 images shot over a 20 year period working in The States, down to 72 images. Now resting in the form of a handmade book, it was definitely a labor of love.

It’s certainly not The Americans,’ but its American none the less.