White Line Fever: A few snapshots from the road by Tom Hill.

About the photographer:
I have been working within the photography department of the University of Derby since 1992, previous to this I earned a living as a cruiseship photographer,then Despatch Rider and HGV driver. I studied photography at Blackpool & Fylde college in 1983. I like to specialise in Editorial portraiture nowadays, but the work here in the gallery is really a load of self-indulgence,not serious photography but a bit of fun and some personal thoughts thrown in.

About the pictures:
These photographs are a small selection of eight from over a thousand snaps amassed during the years either hitch-hiking or HGV driving around the UK. Each picture I take in this vein has a significance to me, reminding me of people or places I have visited during my day to day travels, working for various haulage firms as an agency hired-driver.

I always carry a 35mm camera everywhere I travel away from home, the resulting pictures in this collection have only two things in common; they are all taken from a vehicle or standing at the roadside. Each picture is accompanied by a short explanation of the thought processes involved in the creation of the image (or a tedious paragraph of diatribe),whichever description you prefer rather depends upon your politics!

Browse at leisure.

TH.

On to White Line Fever....