Project: Faces of Western States
The Western States Endurance Run is a 100-mile race from Squaw Valley, CA to Auburn, CA. This is a serious event and as such I wanted to capture the event around midway through to see how the athletes were holding up: physically, mentally, and emotionally. I parked in Foresthill and hiked down to the trail some 3-4 miles away from town to see these runners away from the busy aid station in Foresthill. I was far enough away from the places you would normally encounter spectators that I thought that I could get a good reaction as runners encountered another human far from civilization. These images tell the story.
- Jorge Pacheco
- David Laney
- Ryan Kaiser
- Stephanie Howe
- Magda Boulet
- Unknown Runner
- Jesse Haynes
- Adam Wilcox
- Aliza Lapierre
- Brett Rivers
- Emma Roca
- Filippo Canetta
- Joe Grant
- Kasi Liketeig
- Nicole Studer
- Randy Vander Tuig
- Mark Lantz
- Caroline Boller
- Matthew Urbanski
- Joelle Vaught
- Seth Kelly
- Unknown Runner