Chris Coekin has done a series of images documenting how he hitch hiked his way around England on and off for 6 years, he also took photos of those who picked him up. These people he considered to be a dying breed, people willing to offer help to strangers. He made a photobook that consisted of his images and short stories of the drivers that picked him up, alongside photos where handwritten text and travel souvenirs. Coekin used disposable cameras to document them with self portraits next to the roads, he also documented what he would find along the way eg roadkill or rubbish. Coekin uses a professional camera to take the portraits of the drivers after revealing to them his true destination is a 'photograph', he them provides them with a pre-printed questionnaire complete with a signature box to get the drivers approval to be included in the project.
Questions have been raised as to whether this project is taking advantage of the drivers after they offer help. The use of a film camera for this project gives the images an interesting hue and grain over the images that successfully makes the snapshot aesthetic that he was looking for. By using a film camera, his images are as unpredictable as his journey. He is also limited to 2 settings by using a disposable film camera, flash and non-flash. However, he will only have used the non-flash version but still can't focus to such precision that a professional camera can. Coekin captured "his adventures, the landscapes and the people he encountered"