To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual […]

I moved into the slow lane, but trucks loomed up in the rearview mirror one after another and then overtook me, their huge forms seeming about to suck me under […]

It was as if driving were a story I had suddenly stopped believing in, and without that belief, I was being overwhelmed by the horror of reality. The river of […]

Recently, renting a car alone on a trip abroad, I realized that something had changed: The world no longer seemed entirely familiar to me. I struggled to comprehend the strange […]

Other drivers surged up impatiently behind me, sounding their horns. I had forgotten, it seemed, how to drive; or rather, the degree of responsibility that driving entails suddenly seemed unmanageable […]

Sometimes, stuck on the coast road behind the slow drivers while they decide whether or not they want to turn left, it strikes me that the true danger of driving […]

Perhaps it is myself I am afraid of. Despite my claims to equality, when my husband and I go somewhere together by car, I automatically get in the passenger seat. […]