In this remarkable pseudo-documentary and biography, Sara Macel followed her father, a traveling salesman, on his trips across the United States. May the Road Rise Up To Meet You evokes a feeling of loneliness that is tangible throughout the empty hallways, car parks and airports, says The Telegraph. On a larger scale, this project explores the changing nature of the road in American culture.
Sara Macel (b.1981, Houston TX) received her MFA in Photography, Video & Related Media at the School of Visual Arts in 2011 and her BFA in Photography + Imaging from New York University''s Tisch School of the Arts in 2003. Her work has been internationally exhibited and is in various private collections. Her recent honors include Magenta Foundation''s Flash Forward, Top 50 Photographer''s in Photolucida''s Critical Mass Award, and she was named a winner in the New York Photo Festival. In 2012, Sara received the Individual Photographer''s Fellowship Grant from th
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“...a visual narrative of her father’s professional life, the life he lived separately from their shared family experience.”,
- The New Yorker, August 23, 2013
"May the Road Rise to Meet You is beautiful, and as an intervention into comprehending the distances that work creates within families, achingly so.",
- Fraction Magazine, Issue 39
