Big Throat

Big Throat by Nat Ward, 2020 * Written about on Juxtapoz *Written about on Collector Daily Confronted with the prospect of being a father to a daughter in America, Nat Ward traveled to Northern New Mexico to see his own shadows and secrets with clarity. Big Throat is a product of what he discovered about the landscape, about America, and about himself as he crossed the Rio Grande Gorge bridge and photographed deep into the canyon. The high desert has a way of raising the stakes. It’s a place where one cannot escape the palpable proximity of mortality. With a disorienting photographic perspective of the American landscape, both physical and psychological, Big Throat is resonant for anyone who feels lost in the place they call home and profoundly moving for those who know that their secrets make them whole. Big Throat is the story of a man changed by the humbling scale of darkness the desert. It is a deadpan account of the things men can’t say and a ledger of the very things they should. Nat Ward is a photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. He received his MFA from Columbia University in 2013 and was a resident in the Sharpe Wallentas Studio Program from 2015-16. He has exhibited internationally since 2008 with work in exhibitions presented by The Jewish Museum, Rail Curatorial Projects, and The Tel Aviv International Photography Festival. Ward’s practice takes form in books and large-scale, multi-image installations that explore the fictive potential of visual narrative sprawl. He is also the co-creator of the photographic online project space “A New Nothing.” OPTION I - Book Only - SOLD OUT OPTION II - Book with Print 01, 5.5 x 7” silver gelatin print, signed, limited to 50 copies - $65 7 x 9" softcover, offset 64 pages, 26 plates First Edition, limited edition to 300 copies COLLECTIONS Amon Carter Museum of Art Guggenheim Museum Maryland Institute College of Art Museum of Fine Arts Houston Museum of Modern Art