Desert Hills Motel

About Shannon Richardson

It is sometimes difficult to believe that Shannon Richardson’s photographs of American motels are from the 21st Century and not the archives of an old Hollywood film studio with sets from the 1950s. The images depict the present whilst also representing the past. Richardson lives in Amarillo, Texas. He took the shots along Route 66, the legendary road running from Chicago to Santa Monica straight through the American Mid-West. Again and again he would detour down a small side street to capture these icons of transient hospitality. Their fragile structures rest patiently at the side of the road as if time stood still. Oases of a culture of mobility, bright advertising banners entice weary… Read more