Hell’s Half Acre, Wyoming, 2006 Image posted July 4, 2010

My project photographing Hell’s Half Acre reflects the love affair American photographers have with the landscape of the American West. This stems from the historical fact America learned of the West through photographs. Easterners did not understand the vastness of the land, so often a person or a wagon provided a necessary reference for the scale of the landscape. Here’s my homage to that genre.