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The word backwoods is probably more familiar to Americans, referring to a remote or culturally isolated area far from the city. For me it evokes another place the working-class men I like to eulogize, might be found. It also neatly encapsulates the book’s theme, tying together the variety of locations I’ve used.

The lush, verdant hills of upstate New York—featured in Backwoods—were an exciting new landscape for me to explore. I had the opportunity to shoot there over the course of a week last summer, thanks to a generous patron who opened their estate to me and several models.

Whether in these dense forests and their rough-hewn stone and timbered clearings, the dusty rural terrain and rivers of Australia’s outback, or in the shanty timber cabins of the desolate American West, the backwoodsman of these rugged landscapes are self-reliant, a bit rough-hewn, shaped by and happily immersed in the environment they inhabit.

Backwoods  is a fresh body of photography blended with some carefully selected images from my archives, that flesh out the theme.  It seeks to capture the raw, natural beauty of the male form in evocative settings, many of them seemingly bleak and unforgiving. “As with much of my work, the book is a study of elemental masculinity and of men at ease in tough surrounds. These are portraits of resilience, simplicity, and the timeless allure of lives lived menially or close to the land.”

“It is also a celebration of craft—both mine as a photographer, and that of the men who travelled to work with me and help me re-imagine these tough lives and shape them into photographic fantasies”.

Backwoods has a hard cover with dust jacket, is large formatted at 330mm ( 13”) x 265mm (10 1/2”) x 24mm (1”) and has 160 pages of art stock matte coated gloss paper with over 160 photos. The book comes cling film sealed.