Ben Huff
The Last Road North
By: Katelyn Curtis
Huffs photography shows a cool central composed pictures that forces you through the isolation of his travels and forces you to see his message in each photo. Each photo is well balanced and allows the viewer to keep moving their eyes from one corner of the page and back again in hopes of finding something that doesn't make us feel so unwelcomed. Besides being a documentary photographer, he also is a audiophile, musician, and an educator.
This photo documentary was completed on the Dalton Highway which is 490 miles, nicknamed The Last Road North. Each photo he chooses to show us stakes a temporary claim on the land, and even further, the people before the item was here, had intent of staying and staking land. The promises of having a new future and leaving the past behind was a mirage. He furthers to explain that even in the vast emptiness we still want to regulate everything and be so involved but in the wilderness and isolation of the wild west, it is not possible. He shows the cars repeatedly through his series to show that they are the only indispensable means of travel and survival on the Dalton Highway.
Personally, I really enjoy the isolated factor and the quiet that comes to my head. So many things today are fast pace and noisy, this is the complete opposite. Huff points out the beauty of the wild but also warns travelers to be cautious of human promises to the wild in tough rugged land. People always have an air about them that they can overcome everything, but when it is below zero, no food for survival, and trying to obtain promised land that was the Indians before you, it just unrealistic.
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