Wanderlust-Inspiring Views From Swampy’s Year Riding the Rails | American Photo

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It was the “absence of a price tag” that initially sparked Swampy’s interest in hopping trains as a teenager, but a decade later the elusive artist says he continues to travel by rail because of the solitude. “There is a calm to the environment surrounding the tracks,” he writes in the intro of his recently released photobook, NBD. “It lacks the stress of being corralled by commerce and advertisements, like on the streets and highways where capitalism anticipates people will accumulate.”