Documentary photographer Hunter Barnes was given extraordinary access to NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) for this book. He went on the road with the Ganassi team and slept in the parking lot with fans for a week before the race. Hunter's desire was to capture the spirit and culture of the tracks and how NASCAR originally started - in the South, with the moonshiners running from the cops. This exhilarating photographic essay is an intimate look at racing culture.
Hunter Barnes is an extraordinary documentary photographer. His black and white portraits of cultures and communities often ignored by the mainstream are renowned for their stark and unflinching beauty. In 2006, Barnes travelled to Sri Lanka, intending to document the devastating aftermath of the 2004 tsunami. Instead, he arrived amidst rapidly increasing tensions in the civil war and a breaking down of the ceasefire signed four years previously. Barnes documented the impact of the resurgence of the war, accompanied by Hunter's raw, handwritten diary entries from the time.