Cowboy for Americans

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Photographer Anouk Masson Krantz spent five years in the American west, coming to know multi-generational ranch families and admiring their work ethic, integrity, devotion to family, and sense of place. Her stunning black-and-white photographs document the real-life world of cattle round-ups, rodeos and country culture.

"The country music I make and the songs I write represent real, hard-working folks that have a strong sense of purpose, determination, and faith, much like those who work and live around where I grew up in Northern California. I spend a lot of time in Texas as well, riding and roping with folks that reflect these very values ... Anouk's work aims to celebrate and capture a true country lifestyle." – Jon Pardi

I am an explorer. I explore places and people. I enjoy driving unreasonably long distances and love to exchange with those who are different, those with another set of convictions. I try to learn about them and then to understand them, what is important to them, what they love and what they fear, so that I might learn what makes us different and what makes us the same. I am trying to raise my children to think for themselves and not to be taught what to think. I want them to seek to understand the world around them and how we got here; to listen first, and then to find their voice; and to have their own direct experiences with the world that will have uncertain outcomes. This is how we can open ourselves to the possibility of discovering and creating unknown, undiscovered inspirations of our own.

Celebrate an American archetype – the cowboy -- in extraordinary duotone photographs. In Anouk's pictures, the cowboy life we imagine is very close to life as it is.

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