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Paige Green is a documentary and portrait photographer, whose storytelling approach to photography frequently addresses issues involving agriculture, land use, and food. Her work is featured in nine books and has been published in Glamour, National Geographic Traveler, New York Times Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, GQ, Country Living, House Beautiful, and Culture. Paige lives in Petaluma, CA with a house full of boys.

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  • Consumer Nation: It is getting better(?)

    “I think it is getting better because you can find more organic food.” “Shopping is my high, when I am depressed I go shopping.” “When we die, we will be covered by all the things we purchase, that is going to be our hell.” ” I just think about all the things I could give…

  • Asking for directions….

    …can lead to some amazing experiences. I was on the way to Lake Keowee, to visit Ann and her family and I wasn’t exactly sure I was going the right way, when I saw this man, Homer Price, on the side of the road with his spray can full of herbicides…. I pulled around and…

  • Japanese Beetle Assassin

    aka: mom This is my mom. She is a bit of a rarity in her neighborhood….I would even guess some of her neighbors might call her a bohemian because of her unconventional unruly yard….and if her neighbors knew about her technique to get rid of the Japanese Beetles that eat the flowers on her crape…

  • Waffle House in Lancaster

    I started my Waffle House Tour 2007 in Lancaster, PA. For those who don’t know, I believe the Waffle House is a place to find community in our chain restaurant reality. Because community is my motivating force, one of my projects I have been wanting to do for many years is to document community within…

  • the summer begins

    Ok….so all the papers are finished and I have left London and am gearing up to start my photo-intensive summer. My first stop was Philadelphia, well after NY it was Philly, then back to NY, then back to Philly and now I am in Greenville, SC, well Reidville, SC….but that is hard for me to…

  • 486 Bomb Group

    Perfect timing….my family decides to come over in the middle of the end of term two. So all the papers and projects that are due have to be put on hold as we go to Sudbury, England for my Grandfather’s WWII reunion for the 486th Bomb Group. No stress. Because many of the men are…

  • avedon

    (click image to enlarge) For the visual style assessment Matteo Borzone and I chose Richard Avedon and particularly his work from In the American West. “I’ve worked out of a series of no’s. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no’s force me…

  • over-due….

    ok….so I have been horrible at blogging….but I have my reasons….. I go back and forth with why and who cares….why blog when I have my personal journal, and I certainly don’t need or want a public one….so then that means I put a watered down, cliff note version on-line…..but with a nauseating amount of…

  • fifteen with the talking duck

    kate, better known as boo, holding her prize in the hunting room. she turns 15 this week. her dad, todd, says he will shoot any boy she brings home.

  • this is boo’s father, todd

    every year todd has an easter egg hunt in one of his giant pastures, for all the neighbor ranch kids. this is the pre-hunt egg filling party in todd’s hunting room. todd is the real deal when it comes to ranching…..you can’t get more authentic.