American West - Wall Art - Cowboy Culture
What a humbling gift it is being able to spend time on working cattle ranches. This photography series documenting cowboys in the American West has been going on for well over two years now, and I hope it never ends. There is no amount of gratitude I could express to the cowboys and cowgirls for allowing me to be along for the ride. Most of them would never call it work, but still, what they do isn’t just a vital key to supplying the country with beef, it’s an undeniably important piece of American culture. One that most people will never understand because they aren’t able to see it with their own eyes.
This set of images is from the Diamond A Ranch outside of Seligman, Arizona. At 750,000 acres, it’s the largest in the southwest. A piece of property that will make you feel small in a hurry. The images you see here are from my second visit to the ranch, and I’m proud to call a few of the people in them my friends. Stay tuned for more from this shoot. Some of the images should be published in a magazine soon.
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Photograph of two cowboys riding horses at sunrise with a beautiful western scene behind them
Black and white photograph of two cowboys roping a wild steer
Photograph of cowboys eating dinner in a bunkhouse
Photograph of a cowboy saddling his horse early in the morning on an Arizona cattle ranch
Photograph of two cowboy riding their horses through tough terrain in Arizona
Black and White photograph of two cowboys in a bunkhouse
Sign for the Rose Well camp on the Diamond A Ranch - Center of the Universe