Take Your Seat on Route 66

Route 66 is getting a global highlight as a Canadian father-and-son pictures workforce prepares to doc the historic freeway for a digital artwork set up at Toronto Pearson International Airport.

Randy and Spencer VanDerStarren will spend 10 days touring from Illinois to California, photographing landscapes, structure and folks alongside all eight Route 66 states. Their work shall be displayed on six large-format 4K digital screens in Terminal 1 starting in November 2026.

A Route 66 challenge with a global viewers

The challenge, “Take Your Seat on Route 66,” was created in collaboration with The Route 66 Road Ahead Partnership and has been designated an Official Route 66 Centennial Project by the U.S. Route 66 Centennial Commission.

“Route 66 has always been about more than the road itself—it is about the people, communities, landscapes and stories encountered along the way,” stated Bill Thomas, Chair of The Route 66 Road Ahead Partnership and Commissioner for the Route 66 Centennial Commission.

The challenge is designed to introduce worldwide vacationers to Route 66 and encourage them to discover the freeway themselves.

The Toronto Pearson set up is anticipated to achieve hundreds of thousands of vacationers at Canada’s largest and busiest airport.

Father-and-son workforce captures the Mother Road

Randy and Spencer VanDerStarren will {photograph} the Route 66 journey utilizing 102-megapixel medium-format cameras.

The challenge will doc all eight states alongside the historic freeway, with photos specializing in iconic structure, landscapes and the individuals related to the Mother Road.

The pair makes use of a particular director’s chair as a recurring visible ingredient in “Take Your Seat,” inviting viewers to think about themselves experiencing locations around the globe.

Randy stated their pictures has been featured internationally at airports, galleries, embassies and exhibitions. Previous shoppers embody Destination Canada, Los Angeles Tourism, Turkish Airlines and Costa Rica Tourism.

“After 46 countries and over 100 expeditions, Take Your Seat’s mission of human connection now has the privilege of capturing the natural wonders, people, and architecture of an iconic road 100 years in the making,” he stated.

Images will fill Toronto Pearson screens

The ensuing Route 66 images will grow to be a digital artwork exhibition at Toronto Pearson.

Six large-format 4K screens in Terminal 1 are deliberate to show the photographs. The set up will embody location identifiers, English and French captions and QR codes.

The QR codes will direct vacationers to a devoted web site that includes the images, challenge companions and behind-the-scenes content material.

Installation deliberate for November 2026

The Toronto Pearson set up is deliberate for November 2026.

The digital exhibition will give vacationers passing by means of the airport a chance to see Route 66 by means of the images of the VanDerStarrens and study extra concerning the locations alongside the freeway.

The challenge connects the historic U.S. roadway with a global airport viewers as Route 66 approaches its centennial.