No Cure for Apathy

In 2010 Myles Hunter planned to travel 2600 km from Montreal in Quebec, Canada to New Orleans in Louisiana. When his car broke down three hours after his start he decided to choose another vehicle of mobility.

“Thus began an extraordinary adventure of hitchhiking and countless detours on freight trains across the United States, from North to South. The journey, which was originally supposed to take a little over a week, ultimately stretched to more than a year.”

No Cure for Apathy is a compendium of monikers he captured on analogue film while travelling the country alongside railways. He came across many legendary names of the ancient American namewriting phenomenon where hobos, adventurers, writers and railworkers alike leave their aliases combined with a figurative logo on boxcars that travel the continent.

“Against the backdrop of this impromptu journey, the discovery of a world unto itself along the road, that of North American outsiders, adventurers, and railway workers, each with nicknames that evoke a boundless imagination.”

Besides high quality close-ups which are presented large scale the publication includes atmospheric shots from several yards which Hunter passed on his travel across the United States. The content features B. VERNON, BRAKEMAN, BUZ BLURR a.k.a. COLOSSUS OF ROADS, COALTRAIN,  CONRAIL TWITTY, DIXIE REBEL, E.B. ITSO, FREIGHT BANDIT, HERBY, IRISH, MOBY, MONTRÉAL, NO BIDS, 2359 a.k.a. OWL BALL, RAIN MAN, RICK POWERMAN, ROSIE DOG, TAKE5, TEX GOTH, TEXAS PETE, THE KODAK KIDD, THE RAMBLER, THE SOLO ARTIST, TWIST, VIRGINIA ZEKE, WITCHHAT, and others.

52 pages, 21 x 29,7 cm, loop staple bound softcover
Language: English
Release date: 2026
Publisher: Fonds documentaire de l’Amicale du Hibou-Spectateur