Out On A Western Plain is a collection of images from the American Southwest. Inspired by the works of the great American landscape photographers of the 19th and 20th Century like Timothy O’Sullivan, Edward Weston and Ansel Adams. Michael undertook a road trip in order to put his own interpretation on the inspiring landscape of the American Southwest.
From the deserts of Nevada to the Canyons of Utah to the vast wilderness of Yosemite, Michael brings his own eye and artistry to a great photographic tradition. Out On A Western Plain is Michael’s study of an iconic geography that has informed popular culture through a huge body of familiar, and often dazzling, photographic imagery and as a backdrop for decades of Hollywood films.
In fact, it was one such image that first inspired a young McLaughlin to become a photographer. "A large photograph hanging in a cafe caught my eye and changed my life for ever. It was Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada, taken by Ansel Adams in 1944. Up to that point I wasn’t particularly aware of photography, I didn’t even own a camera. I just sat and stared at that photograph and I knew then that I needed to be a photographer.....and that I needed to go there. Out On A Western Plain is the culmination of years of yearning to photograph that landscape and to try to understand why those photographers and that geography has such a profound effect on me and millions of other people around the world.”
ODE TO WESTON
Limited Edition of 5 - 114cm x 76cm - Archival Pigment Ink Print with Timber Frame
SLEEPING DRAGON
Limited Edition of 5 - 114cm x 76cm - Archival Pigment Ink Print with Timber Frame
NATURES FOLDS
Limited Edition of 5 - 76cm x 50cm - Archival Pigment Ink Print with Timber Frame
