Solitude in the American West
Solitude in the American West is an ongoing exploration of the quiet isolation found throughout the region. Photographed on film, the series reflects on landscapes where distance, silence, and time create a profound sense of separation from the world beyond them.
Within these vast spaces are traces of what once was - weathered structures, abandoned places, and fragments of human presence slowly returning to the land. These forgotten landscapes hold a quiet, haunted beauty, where desolation reveals an unexpected sense of stillness and reflection.
Rather than documenting place alone, the work seeks to capture the feeling of standing completely removed from the world - where solitude becomes both the subject and the atmosphere of the image.
2021 - Ongoing
Artist Statement
Solitude in the American West looks at the empty ground of the region: wide landscapes with no one in them, and the homesteads that people built there and then left. Each frame holds two things at once, the scale of the land and the small, failing structure that once claimed a piece of it.
I photograph in every season, favoring early morning and late afternoon light. The ruins are never the subject on their own. They measure how much the land has outlasted the people who tried to settle it.
These places are reached by gravel backroad and remote highway, or across private ranchland. I go to them alone, and the images are the record of that quiet.
Medium format film. Archival pigment prints on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 gsm. Editions of 7 plus 2 APs.
Rather than documenting place alone, the work seeks to capture the feeling of standing completely removed from the world - where solitude becomes both the subject and the atmosphere of the image.
