In his short autobiographical letter ‘Chronology’ (October 2009), photographer Roderik Henderson (born in 1965) wrote: “From 1998, my wife Tanja and I roamed the southwestern United States for years. We traversed the desert in a beat-up Jeep Wagoneer and a small Airstream Argosy trailer, chasing the clarity afforded by bare rock, burning sand and
deafening silence. Thoughtless, dreamless, ambitionless – just utter, phenomenal emptiness. Salt flats and lava beds were our home.”

After spending a few winters living in the Canadian wilderness, Roderik and his family set out again in January 2010 for an existential, artistic journey through Chile. Roderik is a winner of the 2010 World Press Photo Award, taking first prize in the Portraits category, and recently moved to the Netherlands to live and work.