Land for Sale

These photographs are inspired by a body of work called New Topographics‍ ‍by photographers Robert Adams, Stephen Shore, John Schott, and others who documented the human geography of the changing Western American landscape in the early 1970s. Each generation builds upon the land only to be changed again by future generations.

I spent many years driving back and forth on State Highway 2 across the Montana Hi-Line, a vast stretch of mountains and prairie running east-west across northern Montana just below the Canadian border. The Hi-Line is part of the original US railway corridor that today continues to move freight across the state and country. It is a place where Native Americans once hunted buffalo but now live on reservations, where big agribusiness is replacing family farming and ranching, and where small towns are disappearing. These 21st century images of Montana echo an old world rural America that is rapidly changing evoking a sense of both nostalgia for the past and anxiety about the future . (2012-2017)