The Vanishing West

PrizeOfficial Selection in Shoot (photo/video)
ArtistRobert Cassway
CategoryNon-Professional
CreditRobert Cassway

For many years Robert Cassway has traveled to the western part of the United States and Canada photographing the quickly disappearing structures of the 19th and early 20th centuries. These structures include gold, silver, and copper mining communities, ghost towns, wooden grain elevators, abandoned homesteads, churches, and schools. These buildings represent what is left of the efforts of the western pioneers to build a better life and to seek their fortune.

Bio
For many years Robert Cassway has traveled to the western part of the United States and Canada photographing the quickly disappearing structures of the 19th and early 20th centuries. These structures include gold, silver, and copper mining communities, ghost towns, wooden grain elevators, abandoned homesteads, churches, and schools. These buildings represent what is left of the efforts of the western pioneers to build a better life and to seek their fortune.