I have been in Vermont for the past week working with a good friend. We’ve been sorting through and scanning 30 years of his 4×5s. We’ve had rain all week and today was the first beautiful day. We finished work around 4:30pm, and I went for a walk and made photographs.
Untitled, Leicester, Vermont, 2009
“The first time I saw him was at like 6:30 in the morning,” Joe told me over the phone from a swing on his back porch. “It was raining. Raining hard. And we’re just across from the water here at the end piece of this little stretch of road, but this wolf was sitting at the top of the hill in the middle of the road, right on the yellow line, just laying there in the rain like a king. It was fucking beautiful. That kind of stuff… having the time, slowing down a little bit, it does something for the soul that doesn’t translate in the city.”
One day I would like to photograph Joe Purdy. I believe his music and my photography would resonate well with each other.
This video is not able to convey how good the show was.