Trespasser, 2024. First edition. Clothbound hardcover, 188 pp., 90 b/w illustrations, 298 x 374 mm. Photographs by Bryan Schutmaat. Design by Cody Haltom.
Sons of the Living is a photo book about the land and people along the highways of America’s deserts. Photographed over the course of a decade in the American West’s arid and sweeping terrain, this work depicts a human capacity for endurance. Schutmaat offers an updated view of the “open road” that addresses a new era of uncertainty and anxiety. Amidst a backdrop of environmental decline, economic dispossession, and societal neglect, Sons of the Living draws attention to trouble on the road ahead and searches for our hope to withstand it.
