Sawdust Mountain

When I was young, my family would hunt for mushrooms in the forests of the Cascade and Olympic Mountains. Some days we would spend afternoons along the shallows of a river watching salmon fight their way to spawning grounds upstream. These were the icons of the region: forest and salmon, pillars of Northwest identity. These photographs address the complicated relationship between the region’s landscape, the industries that rely upon natural resources, and the communities they support.  Sawdust Mountain is a melancholy love letter of sorts, a personal reflection on the region's past, its hardscrabble identity, and the turbulent future it must navigate.

Purchase the critically acclaimed monograph, Sawdust Mountain.