Beginning with the response to the flooding of New Orleans in 2005, the United States suffered through a series of devastating corruptions of our traditional institutions of support. Stranded is a meditation on the fatigue and despondence of the American psyche during these dog days of the second term of the Bush administration.

These images live in the road photography tradition of Robert Frank, Stephen Shore and Joel Sternfeld, but where they sought to capture the American experience through "the journey," my photographs seek to tell our story through the journey interrupted.

For this series I drive across America for weeks at a time photographing stranded motorists.