« Elegy » by Photographer Colton Rothwell

A collection about reminiscence and the way one develops a way of place by photographer Colton Rothwell. Born and raised in small cities within the Western United States, Rothwell examines his personal recollections and queer id and their relationship to the cultural and bodily landscapes of his youth:

“I used to be raised for essentially the most half in a city of 700 individuals in rural Idaho and felt like an outsider after discovering I used to be homosexual in my early adolescence. Throughout my formative teenage years, I used to be confronted with a alternative, to adapt to the normal masculine tradition of the Western United States — one outlined by violence and destruction — or to run away and create my very own sense of belonging. It’s by means of this battle that my relationship with the thought of place emerges, and I query the persistence of the mythology of the West. It’s this stress between ecstasy and worry that I hope to convey in my image-making.”

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