Eirik Johnson
Sawdust Mountain
Talk and Book Signing
Join photographer Eirik Johnson as he discusses work from Sawdust Mountain (Aperture, June 2009), his highly anticipated second monograph. A culmination of four years of photographing throughout Oregon, Washington, and Northern California, Sawdust Mountain focuses on the tenuous relationship between industries reliant upon natural resources and the communities they support. Johnson, a Seattle native, describes his photographs as “a melancholy love letter of sorts, my own personal ramblings.” Through this poetic approach, Sawdust Mountain records a region affected by historic economic complexities and, by extension, one aspect of our fraught relationship with the environment in the twenty-first century.
Tuesday, May 26, 6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
between 10th & 11th Avenues
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555
