Projects: "On The Way To Somewhere Else" Work Transformation Photo Book Published By Ryniker-Morrison Press

Visibility and hope are the antidotes to the dispiriting civil discourse we find ourselves in today. Anger and resentment grow from being irrelevant–invisible–and then hope dies. People in underemployment are disproportionately represented there.

This project documents an alternative vision–using work to lift and empower people and support their goals and desires for a better life. This is a documentary story of one man and his oil change stores who have made that group visible and hopeful for forty years and has helped thousands of people have better lives.

The company has a life coach and development director for career placement, and numerous educational and advancement opportunities focused on assisting employees to move on to real careers. These celebratory images bear witness to dignity and hope.

They reveal humanity and meaning in the work and the lives it affects by a change in intent. Reductive lighting focuses the eye on gesture. Today, there are 1,400 former employees who are business owners, healthcare professionals, engineers, salespeople, attorneys, financial professionals, civic leaders, great parents and neighbors, all of whom worked here and benefited from the focus to move on to a better place–somewhere else.

My goal with this work is to expose a wider audience to the possibility of bringing hope and change to the lives of an important group of often overlooked people. “On The Way To Somewhere Else: Changing Lives and Changing Oil”was published and exhibited in May 2023 by Ryniker-Morrison Gallery Press

To order a limited first edition of the book, signed and limited to 100, click here.