I'm pleased to announce that Some Version of the Same River, an essay by Troy Jollimore paired with some of my recent photography, is included in the Fall 2014 issue of BOOM: A Journal of California. A preview is also available via JSTOR.
All of the photographs from the effort - inlcuding many not included in the BOOM article - can be seen here on my web site.
The work considers some photographs of Ishi, the last living member of the Yana people who resided in a rugged and remote area in Deer Creek, California, not far from my former home in Chico. He "emerged from the wilderness" in 1911 in nearby Oroville and lived in the Bay area for the last five years of his life.
My pictures are an investigation and response to photographs originally made in 1914 when Ishi and antropologist Alfred Kroeber returned to Ishi's former home. I was principally interested in learning more about the original documents by investigating the place where they were made.
Some Version of the Same River is from a larger overall project called Vanished: A Chronicle of Discovery and Loss Across Half a Million Years. It's a trans-disciplinary effort that considers several Northern California regional icons that have disappeared, including the former Mount Tehama, the Hooker Oak, and a Columbian Mammoth's molar discovered in a flood diversion channel. The project is ongoing.
The Vanished collaborators include:
Byron