A Mining Boom Is Transforming the American West

Lucas Foglia's new project, Frontcountry, took seven years to complete. Edited down from 60,000 photos to just 60, his pictures document the current mining boom transforming the American West. Depictions of rural Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Wyoming mark the contradictions of industry and wilderness as well as their importance to the people who live in these isolated places...