Missy Barlow’s dryer lint landscape, Lower Hoh River, Washington [from "Sawdust Mountain"]
© Eirik Johnson

Eirik Johnson just updated his website with a selection of images from a new body of work (and soon to be released book) called Sawdust Mountain.

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.

Timber and salmon are the bedrock of a regional Northwest identity, but the environmental impact of these declining industries has been increasingly at odds with the contemporary ideal of sustainability. In this, his second book, Johnson reveals a landscape imbued with an uncertain future—no longer the region of boomtowns built upon the riches of massive old-growth forests.

See the photographs here.

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