States of America

Manchester: Cornerhouse, 1993.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Ormerod embarked on extensive road trips across the USA, driven by a deep curiosity about the spaces and people living on the fringes of society. His photographs frequently consist of themes of decay, alienation and resilience - motels glowing under fluorescent lights, rusting billboards on empty highways and solitary figures navigating expansive, unforgiving landscapes. A masterpiece of a private documentary that expresses the charm and current state of good old America from an exceptional perspective through a mixture of black and white and colour photographs. First Edition. Softback (no hardback edition published) in landscape format. 112 pages. With an introduction by Jan Morris. Tiny nick to back cover, else fine. Published two years after Ormerod was killed in a road accident in Arizona in 1991.