American corridor

Photographer Richard Sharum has a long-term project exploring and documenting a 100 mile-wide corridor of land and people that runs through the Central United States, covering Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas. He calls it Spina America.

Also known as flyover country.

This term, flyover country, was one I’d heard my entire life but had never really thought about when it came to the condescension it implied. I felt that this part of our country had been ignored politically, socially, and culturally for decades, with its obscurity creating a subtle but consequential vacuum that had implicitly added fuel to our national divisions.