THESE PHOTOGRAPHS were taken between 2011 and 2018 on Colorado’s Western Slope, in a high-desert enclave of small-scale farms and wilderness. The locals in the towns of Paonia, Hotchkiss and Crawford refer to the surrounding river valley as “the North Fork.” For me, the North Fork is also a place in my imagination.
I first visited in 1992, when I was 7 years old. My dad took
