BIG TIMBER: For-profit Logging on Public Land in the American Northwest

Big Timber examines the splintered landscapes left by for-profit use of public land through commercial logging practices in the Pacific Northwest. Our world’s forests are disappearing at a rate of nearly sixty thousand square miles a year, which is a proven contributor to increased greenhouse gases that cause global climate change. It is imperative that we take a critical look at the way we use our forests, and protect them for future generations.

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This series was made in a Lyrical Documentary style with a nod to the fine art landscape genre. The imagery pays homage to those traditional landscape forms while the narrative looks to the conservation future and stewardship of our natural world. Captured digitally, the detailed scenes are meant to be at once beautiful and startling. The imagery, colors, and textures of these disfigured forests speak to the viewer on a base level. Repetition of shape, texture, and line evokes our ancient understanding of what the natural world is, and how it should remain.