CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/6/2020

In 'The Way West,' the primal power of youth in a western landscape

"Burley, Idaho" (2015) is reproduced from Peter Kayafas: The Way West, published by Purple Martin Press. "In these photographs two dominant elements—youth and animals—are passing through the landscape of the American West," Rick Bass writes. "These twinned elements seem to move sometimes like sleepwalkers lost in a dream that was never quite birthed into reality. The animals as well as people—particularly the young people—still possess a primal power, but many appear also to be just at the edge of being aware for the first time in their lives of something that might be about to go away."