In 2019, Zatara Press published Carbon County, a limited edition Folio Box and Booklet of my photographs from the American West. The photographs were taken over 7 months in Wyoming during 2015 and 2017, while I was an artist-in-residence at Brush Creek Ranch, Wyoming, and later when I returned to work as the official Ranch Photographer. After funding was secured through a Kickstarter campaign, the project was published in the summer of last year. Zatara Press and I exhibited at the photography fairs including The Photography Show sponsored by AIPAD, Paris Photo, LA Art Book Fair, and the NY Art Book Fair.

“The wagon ruts were quieted when the Transcontinental Railroad was built in 1869. Now, people fly, or drive across Interstate Highways, missing all the little whistle stops that are quiet along the nearby two-lane roads. Since America’s destiny was deemed manifest (for better or worse), the landscape here has often been crossed in search of something more, such as: California Gold, Utah Salt, or Oregon Timber. That residue of human migration remains in the form of towns like Medicine Bow and Old Carbon, now bypassed by both the rail and road. Carbon County, Wyoming, was named after extensive coal deposits, when the Union Pacific Railroad began mining the area to fuel its steam locomotives. This is a region where American women first received the right to vote, and bandits such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid roamed, and robbed. Trumpeting humanity are the barren, windswept high plains crowned with the mountains of the Snowy Range.” -excerpt from Carbon County by John Sanderson

More information on this project can be found below.

Carbon County published by Zatara Press