Chasing Summer: Journal from a Global Motorcycle Journey

Unpaginated. An essay by Paul Theroux, meditating on the travelling self, is the introductory text to Chasing Summer. This book maps a two-year journey in which the photographer set out westward from his hometown in Sweden on motorcycle, later to ride back via the east to the same point. The cultural displacement achieved –nomadic, watchful, seeking – is both a liberation and a luxury. The visual documentation are a series of individuals portrayed in their immediate context, as well as observational suggestions of a sense of place. Presentation is almost taxonomic in its format, which render a frank quality in the subjects relationship to the camera. In Paul Theroux's “one of the paradoxes of otherness is that in travel each conceives the other to be foreign”. The book offers hope and encourages all yearning the desire for human connection across and beyond difference.