US ROUTE 1

A photographic journey from the Canadian border to Key West
In the winter of 1992, photographer Andrea Pistolesi and journalist Guido Zurlino traveled the full length of US Route 1, from the Canadian border to Key West.
A continuous southbound trajectory—across winter light, changing latitudes, and a United States observed at a moment that now belongs to a different time.
This book is the visual record of that journey.
Structured by the road itself, the work follows a single geographic axis, documenting landscapes, towns, roadside architecture, and fragments of everyday life along the eastern seaboard. It is not a guide, nor a narrative of destinations, but a sequence of observations shaped by distance and progression.
The photographs belong to a pre-digital moment, both in subject and in method: a slower geography, where continuity was physical and unbroken, and where the road defined the experience.
Seen today, the work also functions as a document of transition—recording places, atmospheres, and visual rhythms that, in many cases, have since been altered, replaced, or disappeared.
This 33rd Anniversary Edition restores and re-edits the original material, preserving its documentary integrity while presenting it in a format adapted for contemporary viewing.
Not a reinterpretation, but a return to a journey measured in distance, light, and time.