September 25, 2005
Elijah Cobb’s Home and Studio
Cody, Wyoming

Photographed the community of Emblem this evening! Great folks and it all came together quite well, not in an small part due to Ms. Lori French, the postmistress at Emblem. Twenty six folks showed up and it went like clockwork. Thanks to all the folks at Emblem and a special thanks to Lori!

How did this come to pass one might ask? Well, we left the Big Horn Mountains as I began to think about doing a side project of portraits of small towns and communities (under 50 population). Both Heather and I though it would make an interesting body of work and I began to churn it over. A few miles down the road we ran through Emblem, Wyoming and the sign said population 10. Seemed like a good place to start so we stopped at the post office but it was closed, after 12 noon don’t you know. We got the phone number and called the next day and talked to Lore, the postmistress. She liked the idea and she offered to help coordinate the photograph. We dropped off a flyer at the post office and Lori talked it up. Sure enough almost everyone showed up and we made a great image. Look for it in the work from the road section in the coming months.

If you have a small town or community you think I’d like to photograph please email me at dmkphoto@earthlink.net.

sign says population 10 but look at all the folks!

Town Portrait with me and Heather

detail of first Town Portrait