Photographs taken in Texas in 2020 along the US – Mexico border in the sweep of the Big Bend where the Rio Grande turns north for a hundred miles before it heads back to the southeast again on its way to the Gulf of Mexico. In Mexico the river is...
These photographs were taken in 2020 along the US Mexico border, and include images made in Organ Pipe National Monument, Sonoran Desert National Monument, Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, and the Barry M. Goldwater Range. “Saguaros grow in a rather narrow slice of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, Mexico,...
I drove the entire river. Top to bottom. Ain’t no river left in the the river. The peril of these species is all about lost habitat. We have remade the river. If we can not get at it, farm it, ranch it, we take the water and set it...
With the nights still cold, the last dry leaves shivered on the cottonwood trees, and the naked branches tested the warm afternoon with small, sticky, sap-coated, amber-tipped buds. I came across the word spray-painted black on the wall of a small side canyon: Perdido. The sign, for I took...
A first look at images from the 2017 season In the summer of 2016 Willy Sutton and I travelled to the other side of the planet to photograph in Mongolia. We were encouraged and supported to take a look at the Tosonkhulstai Nature Reserve by Frank Goodyear and...
From The Wyoming Grasslands Photographic Project by Frank H. Goodyear. There are inherent difficulties in confronting grasslands with a camera. The first of these is the sheer enormity of their scale…. the unwelcoming, some say intimidating, nature of the grasslands’ apparent infinity. “You just are not particularly well received...
About the Gila, river and wilderness, from Dreaming the River, an essay by M.H. Salmon. In Sky Determines , Ross Calvin wrote: “Here if anywhere is air, sky, earth fit to constitute a gracious homeland, not alone for those who occupy themselves at the world’s work, but as well...
Looking at the Ground: Photographs of Michael P. Berman By Charles Bowden, 2006 I’ve been looking at the ground with hungry eyes all of my life, and yet I seldom see it. I know this fact and struggle against it. Michael Berman somehow got a hold of me—I can’t...
From Grasslands, Radius Books, Santa Fe, 2009 by William deBuys Every place needs a poet, someone to reveal the heart of the land. The poet of place tells us where we are, and he also tells us why the particular whereness of a place is important. He shows us...