Keepers of the West Photographs by Landry Major

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• Location: Center for Photographic Art, Sunset Center, Carmel by the Sea, CA
• Time: 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
• Price: FREE
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  JOIN US FOR THE OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION, SATURDAY, OCT 7, 2023  4:00 - 6:00PM
  EXHIBITION DATES: OCT 7 - NOV 5.

  The Center for Photographic Art, in conjunction with PhotoLucida, is pleased to announce the 2023 Critical Mass Solo Exhibition Award. This year’s recipient is Landry Major. We’re thrilled to be exhibiting a large selection of Landry’s beautiful gelatin silver prints from her long-term project, Keepers of the West.  Landry’s childhood summers were spent on a family dairy farm in Nova Scotia. Waking at dawn and herding cows alone in the field, where the only sounds were the birds waking and the gentle murmurs of the cows. The smell of fresh milk and fields of grass were the touchstones of her youth. 

  Her ongoing series Keepers of the West took her back to fields at dawn, this time on the family-run ranches of the American West. Visions of the West have long been central to our culture, but the way of life of the cowboy and the family-run ranch is fast disappearing.

  Over half of all family owned ranches in Montana are run by people over 65 and many of their children are not choosing to remain in ranching.

  It is because Landry recognizes these struggles that her series celebrates the beauty of family-run ranches. The lives of these people are framed by hardship, yet they thrive in the simpler way of life that remains their routine, and in the stewardship of the land and the animals they tend.