Interview: Michael Strickland - “Of the Earth”

In rural Kansas, large-format photographer and master printer Michael Strickland is pushing traditional printmaking to extraordinary lengths. For his Of the Earth series, Strickland grinds soil, clay, and charred wood gathered from the landscapes he photographs into pigments for his color carbon prints, physically embedding the land within the finished work. We spoke with Strickland about process, place, the disappearing craft of photographic printmaking, and why the physical print still matters.