Hurry Up And Wait by James Frank Tribble and Tracey Mancenido-Tribble (February 21, 2010) 
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Curator Statement by Michael Itkoff
Tribble and Mancenido’s ongoing project shows the American landscape from the unique perspective of its trucking culture. What we are presented with is not so much a picture of America but a semblance of the subculture itself- the truckers, truck stops, gas stations and other liminal areas that these professional transients traffic. In a country of ubiquity it has been strikingly difficult to connect a face to the labor of production and distribution. This young couple has endeavored to show us this from the inside while they drive a tractor-trailer for a year, highlighting the quotidian minutiae of life at the waypoints of America’s truckers.
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Hurry Up & Wait is an ongoing collection of images exploring the obscure and anonymous life of America’s trucking culture. Driving for a year in our own tractor-trailer, we focus on the banal repetition and periods of isolation from constant movement on the road.
These images are a byproduct of the world we entered and a glimpse of the places eighteen-wheelers are allowed. We are constantly faced with the same landscape regardless of location, from moments of obliged waiting in truck stops to backing into the docks of a warehouse. This is where we photograph.
We showcase the openness of the road and the lonesome journey of the driver, hoping our images bring new light to the harsh beauty in the world of a truck driver.
James Frank Tribble and Tracey Mancenido-Tribble (1983 / 1980) lives and works in .
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I love the humanity and lyricism in this work. There’s an unexpected poetry to the way they present this subject.