Human impact on the natural world is a recurring theme at the heart of Robert von Sternberg’s photographic practice. An avid traveller with a fondness for road trips, he focuses less on well-known tourist destinations than on the visual possibilities of overlooked roadside attractions and chance conjunctions. The surreal artificial lighting that illuminates the American nighttime often provides the definitive photographic images that von Sternberg seeks in his travels. Despite that in most scenes human figures are distant or absent, they feel crowded, as the roads, fences, signage and buildings are constant reminders of human imprint upon the land.