GTX. Galveston/Texas and the Gulf Coast

• Prize
  Gold in Book/Documentary, 2nd Place winner in Book
• Photographer
  Joerg Rubbert, Germany
• Date of Photograph
  1987-2024
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The Texas Gulf Coast stretches from the Louisiana border to Galveston and Corpus Christi, continuing all the way to the Mexican border. Motifs straight out of an American road movie line the coast: morbidly beautiful towns, dilapidated or picturesquely restored houses, and squares that look like film sets. Between 1987 and 2024, I travelled the Texas coast from north to south, capturing it all on somber black-and-white photographs, almost exclusively taken in October and November. The photos transport viewers into an American film noir, dreamlike and and full of melancholic atmosphere.