The magazine of the photo-essay
April 2017 back issue
“A free, really high quality photo-essay magazine. Fabulous!”
Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film & documentary maker
by Tim Richmond
The Process
Working with a wooden field camera, Tim Richmond salutes slow
photography in today’s digital culture.
Deserted streets with beer cans blowing down the road…a cowboy
washing his shirts…a train on its way to a million acres of emptiness…a
Vietnam vet who lost twenty years of recent memory…a whole town for
sale…meth warnings…a tattooed waitress in neon light. All of these
inhabit the Last Best Hiding Place.
Last Best Hiding Place, is Tim Richmond’s personal and contemporary
odyssey through a landscape of filmic references in the American West,
revealing stories true or imagined.
In this way, the subject of time informs the work’s content and its methodology. There is a strong sense of waiting, for
what we ask each subject.
He meticulously hand processes the negatives in a unique chemical fashion yielding a subtle de-saturated image. He
approaches the print making with a gut instinct where the head is ruled by the heart, and produces stunning C type
prints with a delicate tonality.
Bar, Byron, Wyoming.
Bar, Deadwood, South Dakota.
Big Sandy, Montana.
Broadway St, Sheridan, Wyoming.
Brothel, East Mercury St, Butte, Montana.
Dawn, Cody, Wyoming.
Fort Benton, Montana.
King St Alley, Shoshoni, Wyoming.
Laundromat, Casper, Wyoming.
Lewistown, Montana.
Main St, Harlowton, Montana.
Meth, Harlowton, Montana.
North Wyoming St, Butte, Montana.
Oglala Sioux Reservation, South Dakota.
Pleasant St, Miles City, Montana.
Rancher, Buena Vista, Colorado.
Rte 87, Montana.
Santaquin, Utah.
Walkerville, Montana.
