A Motor City Year

In A Motor City Year, photographer John Sobczak captures everyday life in Metro Detroit in 365 images, each day of the year. His photographs showcase the familiar - the Thanksgiving Day Parade in Detroit, vendors at Eastern Market, the Woodward Dream Cruise - the less familiar - cycling at the velodrome in Rochester Hills, robots on the line at the Warren Truck Assembly Plant - and the quirky - the birthday of one of Detroit's oldest women, a tattoo artist at work. Taken together, the photographs in A Motor City Year demonstrate the full texture of life in Detroit, from the traditions we hold dear, to the places we work and play, the people we visit, and the challenges we face.
Sobczak's photographs are united by their intimate perspective and satisfying variety. They represent the diversity and excitement of life in the Motor City.

John Sobczak is a professional photographer based in Detroit whose images have appeared in numerous publications, including Time, Newsweek, USA Today, Hour Detroit, Detroit Monthly, and Crains Detroit Business, and whose work is part of the permanent collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. He has published several books of photography, including The Vision of Words, Motor City Memoirs, Cleveland Classics, Great Stories from the North Coast, and Great Stories from Boston.