Ranch OOP I began to write poetry

I began to write poetry because of my frustration with the inherent limitations of the photograph

Fascination with the life of freedom associated with cowboys and the American West is integral to the mythology of our time and culture

and adventures of his life

including the self-portraits

empty beaches

Ranch OOP I began to write poetryFascination with the life of freedom associated with cowboys and the American West is integral to the mythology of our time and culture. In his cinematic novel Ranch, Michael Light reveals as much about the myth as he does about the specific traditional California ranch that he photographs. "Depictions of the West as a vast garden of romantic innocence and male possibility abound, but the claustrophobic violence and domination required to turn the