Where is gothic? It’s in your neighborhood, just around the corner.
—Martin Edmon

After spending several years abroad, photographer Harry Culy returned to his homeland of New Zealand and took a series of road trips exploring the world he had known while discovering it anew through the journey. By the Wayside is Culy’s attempt to portray a country more complex than the colorful postcard imagery for which it is so well known. The series of black and white photos are both quiet and wistful, each curious portrait and eclectic landscape possessing a thoughtful melancholy. By the Wayside acts as a gothic diary of one photographer’s perception and unease of his homeland, full of a past and present reconsidered.

This post was contributed by photographer and Feature Shoot Editorial Assistant Jenna Garrett.