Home Fires, Volume I - (Hardcover)

About the Book

"Home Fires, Volume I: The Past" is a personal look into the bare bones of Winter in San Joaquin Valley, compounded by the skeletal effects of an epic drought, underpinned by memory and the ghosts of childhood lost.

Book Synopsis

The photographs in Home Fires, Volume I: The Past were taken during the height of a crippling drought in the state of California. Bruce Haley, known for his hard-hitting war and documentary work, turns his camera homeward, to the agriculture-rich San Joaquin Valley where he spent his childhood. The resulting images, haunting and melancholy, play out against the larger framework of contentious water politics and land use issues. The writer Kirsten Rian provides the accompanying text.

Review Quotes

"The photographs pivot around fragments of story from his childhood, of building a life forward, of home that is made as well as found; scattershot sounds and sights carried in his mind from the famines and wars he covered for years; glimpses of drought and man-altered landscapes; birds overhead, sheet glass motionless sloughs reflecting the sky." - All About Photo