Equipped with a large format view camera, and inspired by the poetry of Richard Hugo, Bryan Schutmaat combines portraits, landscapes, and still lifes in a series of photos that explores the lives of working people residing in small mountain towns and mining communities in the American West. Short-listed for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook Award in 2013. Bryan Schutmaat is an American photographer whose work has been widely exhibited and published in the USA and abroad. His first monograph, Grays the Mountain Sends, was published by Silas Finch in 2013 to international critical acclaim.