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A Few Tools to Help You Plan, Before We Ever Talk
Michael Kloth Michael Kloth

A Few Tools to Help You Plan, Before We Ever Talk

Most free tools on a photographer's site are bait for your inbox. These three are not. One reads your pet before the session, one takes the dread out of a headshot, and one shows a print on your own wall at true size. No signup, no catch, and no funnel waiting on the other side.

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Unseen: Pacific Northwest
Michael Kloth Michael Kloth

Unseen: Pacific Northwest

Three years in the Columbia Basin with an infrared-modified camera, learning a landscape that didn't behave. From the wide basin views to the agricultural images made just before leaving, this series records two completely different relationships to the same high desert landscape: the work of arrival, and the work of departure.

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The Grove, Shadwell Farm
Michael Kloth Michael Kloth

The Grove, Shadwell Farm

A fence around trees that don't need containing. It stopped me when I made the photograph. It still does. Here's why.

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The Light That Was Already Leaving
Michael Kloth Michael Kloth

The Light That Was Already Leaving

In 2007, I had a camera modified to record infrared light and started photographing the Kentucky landscapes I'd spent years walking past without really seeing. This is what happens when you turn a lens on a place you're walking away from, before the memories have fully formed.

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