Mutant Vehicles and The World's Fastest Place

Alexandra Lier is a German photographer and filmmaker. Lier's photographs usually take place in small-town America, but are dramatic and cinematic. Her work is about encourage and passion in the most diverse facets. The two series of images featured here are ‘Mutant Vehicles’ and ‘The World’s Fastest Place’.

Mutant Vehicles is a tribute to the artists of the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada who create these incredible driving artworks. With Lier’s love of the desert and bizarre cars, it was just a matter of time before she began to capture these creations which would go on to form the basis of a new book. Since 2014 she has travelled to the festival, documenting the vehicles and their creators.

The World’s Fastest Place is an intimate look at the fantastically passionate culture of land speed racing set in the epic landscape of the Bonneville Salt Falts in Utah. This series is a tribute to the vanishing era of internal combustion and fossil fuel racing. These are portraits of a generation of ‘Speedseekers’ who cherish the smell of gasoline and oil like the very air we breathe; people whose sense of purpose is tied to the creation of record setting vehicles.

Lier’s obsession with fast cars, customs, racing and its culture began back in 1999 when she first visited Bonneville for Speedweek. Every year she travels to at least one landspeed racing event, camera in hand, to document the people and the cars. To see more of Alexandra’s work, click on the link below.

Photos © Alexandra Lier