Backroads as Projects and Metaphor
Like streets in a town, roads can provide a journey of exploration. The Douglas Lake Road stretches across the interior of British Columbia connecting roughly Quilchena to Westwold. Its a well travelled historic route through BC ranching country connecting small primarily farming communities. It's a window into the connection of history and present day that is harder to find on the busier highways. There is no shortage of backroads with stories.
The Douglas Lake Road project is ongoing and I intend to add more seasons and details to bring the content to book size.
At the end of this page an new project is described - by far the most ambitious I've been involved in.
Raw Materials and Consumers
Douglas Lake Road is also a practice run for a larger project that may also use the road metaphor to document the path from raw materials to the things we expect for our standard of living and quality of life. The disconnect between the most modern life and the source of resources that make it possible is recognized as complicating the conversation and decision making about something that can be both a means of good or significant bad. The goal is to produce a photo book that encourages discussion about issues.
111 Mile Ranch on the Cariboo Highway.