I just got back into town after doing some assistant work on the set with Portland photographer Michael Halle. Michael is currently doing a photo documentation of locals out in Tygh Valley, Oregon. This was a shot I got of Michael hard at work with a lifelong farmer in the city of Wamic, OR.
[...] These portraits of Mert are part of an ongoing project I’m working on tentatively titled Voices of Et Cetera. The title arose from an NPR story on historian Studs Terkel. Steven D. Lenhart Helped me make these pictures in wamic and posted a a photo and itota from the day on his blog. [...]