Ranchlands Paintrock: Double Exposure Landscape Photography

Travel Photography

Aug 13

Axis Layers series photographed at Paintrock Canyon in Wyoming

An image from the series, created at Ranchlands.

In the summer of 2025, I had the opportunity to spend time with Ranchlands at Paintrock Canyon, their magical camp in Wyoming. It’s a place centered around the landscape and a sanctuary from the daily bustle. There is no cell service or wifi so it truly gives you space to recharge. I was there to create a series for The Review, Ranchlands’ annual publication, and that year’s theme was Lines.

For the issue, I proposed a series that built on my ongoing exploration of landscape, place, and the relationship between the natural and human-made world. I work with analog film, creating double exposures entirely in-camera so that two distinct moments exist within a single frame. The process allows me to layer lines, forms, and textures, bending time and creating images that move between documentation and abstraction.

The theme of lines felt particularly fitting for this way of working. Once you begin looking for them, lines are everywhere—in the horizon, fences, roads, grasses, shadows, architecture, and the contours of the land itself. Through layering these elements, I was interested in how they intersect and respond to one another, and how those relationships can become a way of understanding a place.

The series is also a meditation on the landscape as it exists now and the experience of being within it. Rather than trying to create a literal record, I’m interested in capturing something closer to the way a place is experienced and remembered and almost like a dream: fragmented, layered, and slightly surreal. Two moments collapse into one, creating a sense of place shaped by both observation and memory.

I recently received my copy of The Review, and I love seeing how the work came together on the printed page. It feels especially meaningful to see these images returned to a physical form—film, paper, and ink—and to have them live alongside the other interpretations of Lines within the issue.