Greta Pratt: A Cloud of Dust | LENSCRATCH

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History is never one-sided. It is multi layered, multi sided, complex. It is personal and it is communal. I am fascinated by the ways the past is relived on the contemporary landscape and how the story changes in the telling and with time. Photographer Greta Pratt’s work feels like the result of sitting around a

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Photographer Greta Pratt’s work feels like the result of sitting around a campfire and playing a long game of telephone. Her photographs reflect stories told over time that have been reinterpreted, recontextualized, and homogenized into a mythic history, some parts based in reality, some in movie lore, and the rest in creative and romanticized thinking. She has long been looking at how we use and interpret history and her new project, A Cloud of Dust, captures the people and places that continue to carry on the traditions of The West.