1880 Town
Jackson, Co, SD

These photographs are part of a large project to interpret something
of the life and land in the U.S. Great Plains, that vague no man's
land loosely fixed in the imagination somewhere between the humid Midwest and the Rockies, running from West Texas to eastern Montana.

Irreducible elements here are dry silence and grass, wheat and cottonwoods, horizon and sky, the square of section line roads,
the circle of pivot irrigators, infrequent but always welcome rain,
roads and railroads that cross the broad distance connecting worn towns with brighter places to the east and west. This is the
American steppe, parts of 10 states, some 450,000 square miles,
an area one-sixth of the lower 48 states, a long-contested region of pinched possibilities, the most ignored--and reviled--region of the nation, and possibly the most beautiful.

From Hokanson's essay "Across the Grain," published in
Speakeasy in the summer of 2003

From this large group of images, I am curating a 60-plus print
(the exact number yet to be determined) show that, pending sponsorship, should be ready to travel by about July 2004. It will include maps, text blocks, labels and promotional materials.
Specifics will be posted as they become available.
See Photographic Exhibits page.