Eastern Sierra

The home range. Truckee sits on the northern Sierra crest; the rest of the work is a road trip down 395 — the Owens Valley spread to the east, ten thousand vertical feet of granite stacked to the west.

This series is from a year of skinning, descending, and walking the eastern escarpment between Tahoe and Lone Pine. The Sierra is the most photographed range in California; the work, more than anything, is an exercise in restraint — in walking past the obvious, in waiting for conditions that have not been catalogued, in trusting the camera to find the angle that the eye already knows.

Most of the photographs are of skiers — friends, partners, the occasional solo — moving through terrain. A handful are of the place itself. The recurring image is the same as everywhere else in the work: a single figure inside terrain that dwarfs them.