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Focus on Installation: Letha Wilson by Erica CheungApril 7th, 2021

©Letha Wilson, Yellowstone Sunrise Idaho Lava (2021), UV prints on steel, 22 1/2” x 26” x 8”

In Letha Wilson’s multimedia works, photographs of the land are bolstered with structu

Alexa Cushing: Due West by Daniel GeorgeNovember 26th, 2020

©Alexa Cushing

Projects featured this week were selected from our most recent call-for-submissions.

Sandy Carson: I’ve Always Been a Cowboy in My Heart by Aline SmithsonOctober 15th, 2019

©Sandy Carson, Glacier National Park, from I’ve Always Been a Cowboy in My Heart

I don’t know why, but certain things seem more absurd in The West.

Adam Jahiel: The States Project: Wyoming by Shawn BushSeptember 12th, 2019

©Adam Jahiel

Adam Jahiel is an internationally recognized photographer who lives and works in the American West.

Sandy Carson: I’ve Always Been a Cowboy in my Heart by Aline SmithsonSeptember 4th, 2019

Elliot Ross: Plainsmen by Daniel GeorgeMarch 25th, 2019

©Elliot Ross

In Elliot Ross’s series, Plainsmen, we are called to the interior American West—a place which, from an outsider’s perspective, is generally romanticized and oversimplif

Preston Utley: Today’s West by Megan RossNovember 10th, 2018

Antique Store. Denver, CO.

Christopher Russell: The Explorers by Aline SmithsonMarch 8th, 2018

©Christopher Russell Mountain XXVIII 2017 Pigment print scratched with a razor 24 x 32 inches (60.96 x 81.28 cm) / Two panels, each measuring 24 x 16 inches (60.96 x 40.

Luis Fabini: Cowboys of the Americas by Aline SmithsonMarch 2nd, 2017

It was terrific to meet Luis Fabini recently and spend time with his rich new monograph, Cowboys of the Americas, published by Greystone Books.

Karoliina Paatos: The American Cowboy by Aline SmithsonDecember 6th, 2016

What compels a photographer from Finland to make work about the American West? Seven years ago, Karoliina Paatos began to make photographs in Idaho, Nevada, and Oregon i