Bryan Schutmaat


Bryan Schutmaat is an American photographer based in Texas, USA.
Schutmaat book's include Grays the Mountain Sends, which won the Aperture Foundation Portfolio Prize and the photobook category of The New York Photo Awards, and Good Goddamn.
His work is held in the collections of Baltimore Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Life and work

Schutmaat was born in Houston, Texas in 1983.
His first book Grays the Mountain Sends portrays mountain towns and former mining communities of the American West through portraits of people and landscapes. He made the work with a large format camera. Islands of the Blest, uses historic photographs of the American West he and Ashlyn Davis sourced from the online archives of the Library of Congress and United States Geological Survey. Good Goddamn is about a friend "from rural Texas and his last few days of freedom before going to prison."

Publications

Publications by Schutmaat

Schutmaat's work is held in the following public collections: