When he turned 17, Richmond headed to the United States, where he spent three months hitchhiking his way through the Western states.
“I just wanted to see things like I’d seen in films,” he said.
Richmond captures the solitude and expanse of places like central Wyoming and Montana in his latest photography project, “Last Best Hiding Place,” which releases in book format in June in the United Kingdom and in the fall in the United States.
But don’t expect any romanticized, idyllic scenes in his photography.
–
But he insists that his audience needs to “create their own backstory” about what they are witnessing in his photos.
“The place has to resonate with me … there has to have some sort of lyricism or poetry about the image so people can see into it,” he said. “There’s no story here so the pictures don’t have to fit in … these pictures can float around a bit more, they don’t have to fit with a strict text narrative.”
Tim Richmond is a fine art photographer and master printer. You can follow him on Facebook and on Twitter.
