Blake Peterson of 425 Magazine has written a feature on Washington Wide. We talked over Zoom in late August, and the piece covers more ground than I expected.

It starts at 5 a.m. in the Skagit Valley in 1998, where I met Ken Duncan setting up a camera I'd never seen anything like. That meeting turned into a three-year collaboration and sent me toward panoramic photography, which I've shot ever since because our eyes see panoramically.

The article also covers what the book is about. Washington has glaciers, coast, high desert, and prairie inside one set of borders, and most books on the state stick to the Cascades and the coast. Washington Wide spans all of it, in six sections, across thirty years of film. Every frame was shot on Fujichrome Velvia 50 with a Noblex 135U or a Hasselblad XPan II and scanned by Michael Strickland.

It also tells two stories from the field: a Seattle sunrise shot from the top of an apartment building, and the people in Whitman County who pointed me to places I'd never have found on my own.

Read the feature in 425 Magazine →

Washington Wide is a 172-page hardcover with a foreword by Randy Lewis, and it ships now. Order at washingtonwide.com.