With A Truck As A Camera, A Photographer Travels The Country To Capture The American Dream

Photographer Ian Ruhter traveled the country capturing unique American stories using a technique that melded subject and artistic process. For a decade, snowboard photographer Ian Ruhter saved as much money as he could. Not so much for a rainy day, more for the dream to be named later. “I knew one day I’d like to do something,” he says. “I didn’t know it was this, but I knew it would be something.” That something is “American Dream,” a multi-media project based around Ruhter’s travels meeting and photographing Americans from all walks of life with the truck he converted into a giant camera. Not just any camera, but one that took wet plate photos using the collodion process, used primarily in the 19th century.Read Full Story