Ryan McIntosh and Yogan Muller: Tracy Hills - Hardcover

by Ryan McIntosh (Artist), Yogan Muller (Artist), Britt Salvesen (Text by (Art/Photo Books))

A collaboration between LA-based photographers McIntosh and Muller in which they explore and document Tracy Hills--a new master-planned community being built near Tracy, in the central valley of California.

While Tracy Hills revisits some of the tropes of the New Topographics era, the work underscores the distinctly twenty-first-century ecological issues that the anachronistic nature of this kind of community seems to deny--unpredictable access to water, elevated heat, wildlife risk, and unsustainable development.

The shared concern that prompted the two photographers to begin documenting this community was not unfounded. A few months after they thought the project was finished, the Corral wildfire swept through the area surrounding Tracy Hills, the aftermath of which they returned to capture. The book brings together images from both photographers, each working in their own distinct style and format, from the community before and after that devastating, but unsurprising, event.

Yogan Muller's work appears in the collections of Galerie Été 78 (Brussels), BnF (Paris), and the Obscura Museum (Metaverse).

Author Biography

Ryan McIntosh (b. 1984, California) is a Los Angeles-based artist and photographer. He received his MFA in Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design, and his BFA in Photography from University of Arizona. Ryan's recent work revolves around mankind impact on the natural environment and the changing landscape of the Southwest. He photographs exclusively with an 8x10-inch view camera, committing himself to producing only handmade silver chloride contact prints in the traditional wet darkroom processes. His upcoming exhibition THESE IDEAS WERE NOT MINE, YET I HAD THEM will be on view at Marshall Gallery, Santa Monica, CA from April 5 to May 17, 2025.

Since 2009, Britt Salvesen has been LACMA's Curator and Head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department and the Prints and Drawings Department. Previously, she was director and chief curator at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP), University of Arizona. Prior to joining CCP, Salvesen was associate curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Milwaukee Art Museum and associate editor of scholarly publications at the Art Institute of Chicago.