The Grove

Description

While exploring the Wyoming landscape featured in his Carbon County project, John Sanderson discovers an isolated hilltop of ancient trees and rocks, documented in this sidequel book, The Grove. Sanderson seeks solace in these forms of nature by searching the land for an understanding of what this place means in context to his own personal being.  The images are presented in a stark B+W photography style, in contrast with the formal color photography of Carbon County.  Moved by this life-changing experience, Sanderson has channeled a 25-quatrain companion poem, to try to come to terms with these feelings and expand beyond photography’s limitations as a medium.

John Sanderson is drawn to broad topographical subjects within the United States of America.  It is there in the outdoors he feels most creative.  His photographs reconcile American motives of impermanence, and expansion within the contemporary landscape.  His projects include themes such as transportation, leisure, residence, industry, and decay.  The influence of growing up in New York City’s Midtown Manhattan underpins much of Sanderson’s work which is rooted in a passion for architectural design.  He captures photographs for each project with multiple large format film cameras as well as smaller digital cameras as needed for commercial clients.  Sanderson’s photographs have been featured in a variety of publications such as: Slate Magazine, BBC News, The Wall Street Journal, and NBC News. Fallen Flags, and Railroad Landscapes have both been the subject of several solo and group exhibitions.  In 2017, he published National Character, a Monthly Monograph Magazine, by Subjectively, Objective.  His work resides in a number of private and public collections including the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York Transit Museum, NTR Partners, and the Center for Railroad Photography & Art.