"In American culture the belief persists that through one's own efforts, a personal paradise is achievable. But what does that paradise look like...?"

Asks Eliot Dudik, explaining his photography project, which explores the United States by going to all the places called "Paradise Road."

I found that via "Searching For The American Dream On Paradise Road" (NPR).

Dudik's numerous carefully mapped-out trips across the U.S., one of which covered 17,000 miles, have allowed him to encounter a diversity of landscapes and people. By keeping the project focused only on roads named Paradise, he constructed it as a rough survey of the topography of rural America....

On each road he visits, Dudik takes time to explore the scene that he finds, considering how that particular location might reveal some sense of paradise before he takes one 8-by-10-inch film photograph. "On these long road trips, I'm stuck with whatever weather might be happening when I arrive, and I unfortunately don't have the time or resources to wait or come back when it's better," he says.

I like the constraints! He only can take one photograph in each place... and the place needs to be a Paradise Road.

Interesting to use film (and large format!). He has to put the effort up front, into choosing exactly what to expend his one shot on. It's so different from the normal thing today which is to take hundreds of digital photographs and to do the choosing after the fact on your computer screen — that's certainly what I do.