Looking at The Empty Landscape.

Mojave, 02/01/2025

After all these years I still get asked, ‘why are there no people in your pictures?’ My answer is always the same and something I learned from the late, great, Lynne Cohen. ‘If there were people, where would I put them!’ Placing a person in a photograph, in particular a landscape, no matter how small, makes the photograph about them. Who is that? Why are they there? etc.

Photographing what people leave behind can tell us just as much as if they still there.