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Nowhere to go but Everywhere
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Nowhere to go but Everywhere

Hardcover English 168 pages 26.67 × 21.59 × 1.91 cm 771 g

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Dotan Saguy’s *Nowhere to go but Everywhere* follows the Reis family—Brazilian Mormons whom the photographer met as they arrived in Los Angeles in the converted yellow school bus they called home. Traveling with three children, the family had come to the United States in pursuit of the American Dream, then adopted life on the road in an effort to spend more time together and encounter the world through travel.

Saguy documented their ten-month stay in Los Angeles, attending not only to mobility as an aspiration but also to its daily demands. The family appears as vehicle dwellers, improvised mechanics, unconventional parents and experimental earners, negotiating the practical strains of maintaining both a home and a livelihood. Their circumstances place domestic intimacy against the pressures of a city where housing, work and belonging are persistently unsettled.

Accompanying interviews extend the photographs beyond observation. Immigration, contemporary parenting, the housing crisis and questions of religious identity emerge through the family’s own accounts, allowing personal experience to carry the book’s larger social concerns. This combination of sustained photographic attention and recorded testimony gives the project its particular weight: an alternative lifestyle is treated neither as a simple emblem of freedom nor merely as hardship, but as a set of choices repeatedly tested by circumstance.

Published by Kehrer Verlag in 2020, the 168-page hardcover belongs within documentary photography while crossing into the study of family, migration and alternative living. For a serious photobook collection, its relevance lies in that concentrated perspective. Rather than surveying mobility in general terms, Saguy builds the work around one household over a defined period, preserving the tensions between aspiration and necessity, movement and stability, collective ideals and individual uncertainty.