Observations From The American West
Documentary photographer exploring time, place and presence.
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Anaconda, Montana, USA · 2025
Anaconda
Anaconda was once the beating industrial heart of Montana — a place of smoke, metal, and the promise of prosperity. Immigrants arrived from across the world, chasing richness in the soil and a future in the flame. Today, the world's tallest masonry smokestack stands silent, a brick monument overlooking the town it once defined. Its presence endures: in memorials and yard signs, in chain-link fence…
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Essays, dispatches, and fragments.
DispatchBroadwater Hot Springs & Fitness
I think there’s something special that happens at hot springs. Sitting around in hot water soaking with other people is honestly pretty relaxing and therapeutic. But I’ve started to wonder just why that is.
DispatchQuinn's Hot Springs Resort
I’m working on a project that aims to answer the question: Why do people visit hot springs resorts? Taking the Waters is centered on resorts in the American Mountain West.
NotebookOn Being A Documentary Photographer
The days are getting notably shorter and the sun a little lower in the sky. The scents are getting clearer and more pronounced as that unmistakable smell of fall sets in. Sacagawea Peak is the tallest…
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AJ Dexter
Documentary Photographer
Documentary photographer based in Bozeman, Montana, working throughout the American West. Quiet, observational work about people, place, and memory.
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