Sawdust Mountain

Eirik Johnson’s award-winning second monograph Sawdust Mountain is a lyrical story of the tenuous relationship between industries reliant upon natural resources and the communities they support throughout the Pacific Northwest. Timber and salmon are the bedrock of region’s identity, but the environmental impact of these declining industries has been increasingly at odds with the contemporary ideal of sustainability.

“In his moving group portrait of a community of loggers and fisherman in the Pacific Northwest, Mr. Johnson, a native son, documents the precariousness of life in this corner of America. At the same time, his photographs capture the defiance of those who have made certain choices--rural solitude instead of an urban economy--and are content (or not) with that bargain." -- Richard B. Woodward --Wall Street Journal.

11 x 11 inches, 144 pages, 70 color images
ISBN 9781597110914
Published by Aperture with the Henry Art Gallery, Spring 2009
with poem by David Guterson essays by Tess Gallagher and Elizabeth Brown