Call of the wild: photographer Lucas Foglia beds down in the American west

Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian, April 1, 2014

Between 2006 and 2013, Lucas Foglia journeyed through the vast open spaces of Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Wyoming. It was a trip that challenged all his preconceptions about the American west. "When I first travelled there, the communities I encountered felt small and the land felt bigger, harsher and more remote than anything I had experienced. And in the midst of the global economic recession, the mining industry was booming."

The end result is a book called Frontcountry, in which the 60,000 photographs he took over those seven years are distilled to a mere 60...