Road-tripping with Brad Pitt across America, New York-based photographer Ryan McGinley shot the Hollywood star tumbling down dunes, frolicking across prairies or simply crouched in fields of tall native grasses staring pensively at the horizon.

The trip, crossing half a dozen state lines over eight days in the spring of 2017, was commissioned by American GQ magazine and was a continuation of the work McGinley had done over a decade.