Lost highways: an offbeat road trip through forgotten America – in pictures

As no notes on Ormerod’s photographs survive, the images have no captions and remain untethered to a particular place and time. As the author Geoff Dyer suggests in the book’s text, they are ‘free-standing’. They depict roads to nowhere, unremarkable towns, vanishing points, in-between places – an indeterminate and state-less America