Terry Evans: Prairie Stories
”She renders each person and scene with knowing respect. Evans' affection is clear, but she regards her subjects well enough to avoid romanticizing them.”
— Michael Zajakowski, The Chicago Tribune
Photographs by Terry Evans
Hardbound / 9.5 x 9.5 inches
176 pages, 69 color images/ 31 duotone images
ISBN: 9781934435489
The small Kansas town of Matfield Green and the surrounding prairie hills are the focus of this extended project by photographer TERRY EVANS. A small town in Chase County with a population of just dozens and only one commercial establishment, a bar-cafe, the community continues to thrive. While Evans remains faithful to the people and place, this is less of a documentary book and more like a set of short stories inspired by Matfield Green and the surrounding prairie.
Evans first began visiting Matfield Green in 1990 and photographed there often over the next eight years. She returned ten years later, in 2008, and photographed the residents and their land through 2010. Eloquent yet resolutely unsentimental, her images span twenty years in the life of the town, and capture the beauty and endurance of the prairie and its dedicated inhabitants.
