In the 1978, Peter Sramek travelled from Toronto to Prince Rupert and back, setting a rule to take a few photographs at each gas station stop as a counter challenge to the notion of the photographer as social documentarian. The pseudo record notes locations, mileage and gas costs without reference to actual experiences along the way.
The project was shown as the first solo exhibition at Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography in 1980 and then at the Art Gallery of Ontario. It later joined the collections of the Art Gallery of Victoria in British Columbia along with other series related to car travel, including the sequence “Super, Natural B. C.” and multi-exposure contact film strips made along highways in Southern B.C. and on Vancouver Island.
