From Little Chefs to muddy fields: Finding beauty in a 1980s motorway

In 1981, 25-year-old photographer Paul Graham packed a wooden large-format camera into a borrowed Morris Mini Traveller. Starting in London, he set off up the A1 motorway, stopping to photograph spots along the way. It would be the first of many journeys over a two-year period. He wanted to examine the road as a space to be experienced and seen, with its own unique architecture, social ecosystems, and even a romantic magic, rather than a place to be traversed as a necessary chore.