Tomorrow, Walter and I are hitting the road.
The plan is simple… Head east. Take the long way. Make some art. Meet some good people. See some weird shit.
For the next couple months I’ll be wandering back roads, river towns, forests, roadside attractions, strange museums, old diners, forgotten places, and anywhere else that feels worth pulling over for.
Somehow, in planning this trip it started turning into something bigger.
A lot of you know me as the snake guy. The more I planned this journey, the more I found myself looking at maps and thinking about rivers, swamps, forests, and all the places where reptiles and amphibians still quietly do their thing. So that’s part of the mission now too. I’m chasing portraits. I’m chasing stories. I’m chasing snakes.
I’m looking for the strange, the beautiful, the overlooked, and the things most people drive right past.
I’m calling the project Portraits From the Road Less Traveled.
Part road trip.
Part documentary project.
Part healing journey.
Along the way I’ll be offering portrait sessions in the towns I pass through. Families, musicians, artists, business owners, weirdos, dog people, snake people, and anybody else with a story worth telling.
Road Portrait Session
- $175
- 45 minutes
- 10 edited images
- Online gallery
- $50 retainer
If I’m rolling through your town, let’s make something real.
I’ll also be updating this blog throughout the trip with photos, stories from the road, wildlife encounters, strange discoveries, questionable campgrounds, and whatever other trouble Walter and I manage to find.
If you’d like to help keep us moving, support the project, buy a tank of gas, a cup of coffee, or help fund a few extra miles down a road that looks interesting, you can do that here:
Venmo: @adammarquis
Anyone who supports the journey will get access to bonus content along the way. Extra photos, behind-the-scenes stories, snake finds, roadside oddities, and some of the stuff that never makes it to social media.
Mostly though, thanks for following along.
This trip is about getting back out into the world, meeting people, making photographs, and seeing what happens when you start saying yes to adventure again.
See you soon.
