vanishing roads a documentary photography project captures the ephemeral nature of asphalt highways across the globe

wilderness visual vanishing urban travel transportation transient transformation titled time thoroughfare swallowed sprawl significance serves rural roads road project preservation powerful portrays poignant planning photograph path passage oncevibrant nature meticulously metaphor memory landscape infrastructure inevitable impermanence impact human historical highways highlighting heritage gradual globe forgotten exploration evocative ephemeral environmental environment endless encroaching documentary disappearing decay cultural captures built beauty asphalt