A lone peak in the Chisos Mountains rising over desert scrub and cactus, clouds stacked behind it

West Texas

Photographs from Big Bend and the desert around Marfa. Personal work that later fed the Capitan Boot Co. campaign.

Field Photography Landscape

Author Jeremy Prasatik Published: 2022 Status: Personal

Classification Photography Landscape Personal Work

TL;DR Shot→ Big Bend National Park, U.S. 90, and the desert around MarfaSubject→ The Chisos Mountains, Santa Elena Canyon, and Prada MarfaLater→ Used as backdrops in the Capitan Boot Co. campaign

Abstract

Photographs from a family trip through far West Texas: Big Bend National Park, the road north, and the desert around Marfa.

Big Bend is the largest national park in Texas and one of the least visited in the country. The same stretch of desert is where There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men were shot.

The trip was personal. A few of these photographs later became the backdrops for the Capitan Boot Co. campaign, shot in the same country.

The Rio Grande winding out of Santa Elena Canyon through the Big Bend desert

Layered ridgelines of the Chisos fading into afternoon haze above the Big Bend desert

Four desert studies in a grid: ocotillo scrub, sotol spikes, a cactus hillside, and a Big Bend ridge

Panorama of the Chisos range under a bright sky, a sotol plant in the foreground

Where There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men were shot

Santa Elena Canyon studies: the sheer limestone wall beside two frames of the Rio Grande below

A dirt road cutting through the Big Bend basin toward a long mesa on the horizon

A steep canyon wall of layered rock rising straight from the desert floor in Big Bend

Sun cresting the Chisos, light flaring across the desert grassland at dawn

A lone desert tree centered in a grid of Big Bend scrub and distant ridgeline

The Chisos peak from the desert floor, afternoon clouds gathering above the range

Three frames stacked down the page: a mountain road, an empty highway, and open desert

Low desert ridgelines going dark under a pale evening sky in far West Texas

SECTION 02: PRADA MARFA

The Store on Highway 90.

Prada Marfa is a permanent sculpture on U.S. 90 near Valentine, northwest of Marfa. The artists Elmgreen and Dragset built it in 2005. It holds real Prada shoes and bags from that season, and the door has never opened.

Prada Marfa, the sealed fake boutique standing alone beside U.S. 90 in the West Texas desert

The Prada Marfa storefront up close, its windows displaying shoes in the desert light

Prada Marfa from across the highway, a power line running past it into open desert

Prada Marfa repeated in a grid around a center frame of open highway and West Texas sky

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See the Capitan Boot Co. campaign

The photographs came home from a family trip and sat in a folder. When Capitan Boot Co. needed a place for the brand to live, the West Texas desert was already shot.

West Texas

Where There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men were shot

The Store on Highway 90.

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