AGAINST THE GRAIN by Mark Maio /backlog the hometown of Ronald Reagan

the hometown of Ronald Reagan

New York-based artist Alexis Martino presents a thirty-year exploration of the currents that define the human experience

This special limited edition book and gelatin silver photograph publication is comprised of two sets of forty-five books

who works with other celebrated stage and image artists

White America align with the current reality of iconic American towns

AGAINST THE GRAIN by Mark Maio /backlog the hometown of Ronald ReaganPhotographer Mark Maio devoted more than three decades to create the images that document the last years of a tough minded gang of Great Lakes union men that celled themselves Scoopers. They operated in groups of eighteen, referred to as gangs, and their primary responsibility was to unload large grain hauling vessels from the nineteenth century and into the twenty first. The first of the scoopers touched the edge of American history, for many were