Eliot Dudik is an American photographer and book artist whose work explores the connection between culture, memory, history, and place. Paradise Road is a series of photographs currently in production that explores the nature of the American Dream and whether such a thing exists. Through mapping, traveling, and photographing the United States on roads called Paradise Road, he aims to assess the temperature of a cross-section of American culture and to produce a metaphorical survey of American happiness, security, sanctuary, longing, and unfortunately, defeat in this particular changing and imbalanced time.