U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott) by Anna Fox and Karen Knorr

Exhibiting at Les Rencontres d’Arles
7 July–5 October 2025

 

Arles Book Launch: Librarie du Palais
Thursday 10 July, 3-4pm

 

London Book Launch: The Photographers’ Gallery
Thursday 24 July 2025, 6-8pm

 

Karen Knorr and Anna Fox’s upcoming publication, U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott), published by Trolley Books, will be launching at Librarie du Palais in Arles on 10 July, 3-4pm. It will be launched in London at The Photographers’ Gallery on 24 July, 6-8pm. Available to preorder now! The project will be exhibited at Les Rencontres d’Arles from 7 July–5 October 2025 at Palais de l’Archevêché.

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.

Read more and preorder by clicking here.