Photographing a queer road trip across the U.S.
The Van Dykes, the story goes, were a caravan of lesbians that travelled throughout the US and Mexico in the 70s. Living off the grid, they sought a life of “radical rebellion and feminist empowerment” away from dreary humdrum normality and the heteronormative-patriarchal constraints of American society.
" -- last year. “I was preparing for our first trip in the van and my girlfriend sent me the story by Ariel Levy. I was totally in love with the fantasy of this caravan and to find evidence that it actually existed was surreal, and that we were living in this parallel universe where we were going to embark on a similar journey. It felt like a spiritual passing of the torch.”
Born in California, Devyn grew up partly in Garden Grove, a small city in northern Orange County, with her extended Latinx family, and partly moving around the American South and Midwest with her mother. “They’re the two most formative experiences of my life. They allowed me to understand the vastness of the American experience.
Her new zine, taking both its inspiration and name from the Van Dykes, chronicles Devyn and her girlfriend’s three-month trip across America and the moving stories they uncovered along the way. “I wanted to approach this with grace, I didn’t want to show up with an agenda and a camera in someone’s face,” she says. “I almost wanted to be a fly on the wall for this project. The art was in the story and the exchange. I wanted the visual component to feel natural and not forced or glamorised.
The images, combined with interviews with the subjects and her partner Hope's words scribbled across notepad paper, create a wonderful ode to life on the road and the moving stories you can find along the way if you look hard enough. “Working with my partner on an artistic project was a new venture -- we had to learn to play to each other’s strengths and weaknesses. It required a new form of vulnerability.
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