Chris Coekin @ The Photographer's Gallery

Inspired by the beatniks, Chris Coekin hitchhiked around the UK for six sporadic years. Armed with a disposable camera and cardboard signs, Coekin relied entirely on the kindness of strangers for modes of transportation. Photographs of his journeys feature action self-portraits, roadside scenery and the drivers who gave him lifts; but it's Coekin's central focus on the breakdown of trust in society that subtly emerges throughout, via thematic images that range from physiognomical portraits of motorists to snapshots of roadkill.

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