A seven-year photographic study of demolition derby culture in rural counties of the Midwest and California.

The work examines these events not as motorsport, but as communal ritual, where townspeople in overlooked American landscapes find release and assert identity through a ritualized act of creation and destruction.

Edited from an archive of over 40,000 photographs, the 115-image sequence is presented largely full-bleed to create an immersive point of view. Paired with short narrative accounts, lyric excerpts, and firsthand reflections, the project moves cinematically from quiet preparation and intimate portraits to moments of impact and fire, revealing both the spectacle and the cultural landscape that sustains it.

234 pages

Hardcover with dust jacket

Full color offset

10” x 13”