Sisters of the Road is a photo series of portraits of America’s trucker women and the landscapes they travel, alongside their stories in their own words.
In 2022, Sisters of the Road was published as a book and launched at The Photographers Gallery in London.
In 2024 Sisters of the Road partnered with Uber Freight for a USA travelling gallery tour in honour of Women’s History Month
Exhibitions
2024 Sisters of the Road USA Tour, Touring exhibition across the USA during March 20242024 Sisters of the Road exhibition event, US Department of Transportation HQ, Washington D.C. USA
2023 Sisters of the Road, Featured Artist, Head-On Photography Festival, Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia2023 Sisters of the Road, 'The Performing Photobook', FORMAT International Photography Festival, England2022 Sisters of the Road, Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography, Barcelona, Spain2020 Sisters of the Road, Arte Fiera /Art City, Bologna, Italy2019 Michelle Kitchen from Sisters of the Road, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, Scotland2019 Sisters of the Road, RPS/Hundred Heroines - Lifestyles & Portraiture, London, England2019 Sisters of the Road, PEP FishTank, Berlin Photo Week, Berlin, Germany2019 Sisters of the Road, Hive, Royal Photographic Society/Hundred Heroines, Blackpool, England2019 Sisters of the Road installation, Royal Photographic Society/Hundred Heroines, London, England
Awards
2023 Head-On Photography Awards, Portrait Award Finalist
2022 International Photography Awards, Jury Top 5 Selection - Photobook
2022 International Photography Award
2021 Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Honourable Mention
2021 Annual Photography Awards, Honourable MentionThe artist behind Sisters of the Road —
Anne-Marie Michel is a London-based visual artist.
Sisters of the Road grew from childhood memories of her mother driving her and her sisters across the USA — just the four of them, starting over as a family of women after her parents' divorce. Along the way, she noticed the lone truckers at roadside diners and the big rigs that shared the highway with them — a quiet, parallel world of solitary travellers.
Years later, she returned — travelling 10,000 miles across the US to seek out, speak with, and photograph America's trucker women. Sisters of the Road has since been published as a book, exhibited around the world, and recognised with awards.