Visual essays
Photographed by Drifton Dalton, these short sequences follow a place, a changing sky, or the relationship between the landscape and the lives moving through it.
Railroads & Mountain Country • Featured Story
A visual journey through rail corridors and mountain country, where weather, light, and working landscapes reveal an enduring connection between industry and place across regions.
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Appalachia • Visual Story
A study of autumn in the mountains, following water through stone, forest, weathered structures, and the last warm light across the ridges.
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Night & Distance • Visual Story
From quiet water and distant mountains to fields of stars, these photographs explore the scale, silence, and shifting light of an open horizon.
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