Book Launch at The Photographers’ Gallery: U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott)

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U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott) by Anna Fox & Karen Knorr
Published by Trolley Books

 

Book Launch:
The Photographers’ Gallery Bookshop
Thursday 24 July
18.00 – 20.00

 

Karen Knorr and Anna Fox’s new publication, U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott), published by Trolley Books, will be launching in London at The Photographers’ Gallery on Thursday 24 July! Click here to  pre-order a signed copy from Trolley Books at a special release price (offer available until 24 July).

Anna Fox and Karen Knorr set out in 2016 on a journey of friendship, adventure and collaboration stopping at motels, drugstores, cafes and Airbnb’s. Stopping, walking, getting out to meet people and explore a fractured US society in the age of Trump. Over 150 colour photographs made between 2016 and 2025 focus on small towns on this extended road trip from Key West in Florida to Fort Kent in Maine. 

In 1954, photographer Berenice Abbott journeyed along the length of U.S. Route 1. From Florida motels to Maine potato farmers, Abbott memorialised communities up and down the East Coast. During this trip, she shot more than two hundred and fifty 8×10-inch photographs, and around one thousand smaller images using her Rolleiflex camera, representing her largest portfolio of photographs devoted to a single subject. In 2014 after the publication of David Campany’s book, The Open Road: Photography & the American Road Trip, Anna Fox and Karen Knorr decided that they would make a collaborative road trip together based on Berenice Abbott’s Route One.

 

Opening this weekend in Florida:

The High Life: Contemporary Photography and the Birds

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
Downtown Sarasota campus, Florida
19 July – 14 September, 2025

Organised by the FEP Suisse and curated by photography experts William Ewing and Danaé Panchaud, The High Life: Contemporary Photography and the Birds will feature some 70 works by more than 50 photographers from around the world. The works will be presented in the galleries of the Museum of Botany & the Arts and outside throughout the gardens, where art will mirror nature in unique and unexpected ways. Karen Knorr will be exhibiting two works, Morning Glory, Grand Mosque, Abu Dhabi, 2019 and In the Green Room, 2001 from the series Academies

Birds have long fascinated, perplexed, and inspired human beings. These captivating subjects have also featured in photographs throughout the nearly 200-year history of photography. Some of the contemporary photographers represented in the exhibition specialize in the photography of birds. Others have only occasionally captured images of birds, and a few have done so merely by chance. The resulting combination of images provides a rich and varied perspective on the subject.