Bryan Schutmaat (born November 3, 1983) is an American photographer based in Texas, USA.
[1] Schutmaat book's include Grays the Mountain Sends (2013), which won the Aperture Foundation Portfolio Prize; Islands of the Blest (2014); Good Goddamn (2017); County Road (2023); and Sons Of The Living (2024).
He and Ashlyn Davis sourced from the online archives of the Library of Congress and United States Geological Survey.
[7] County Road (2023), created during the COVID pandemic is a quiet and intimate look at the Texas landscape and small towns closer to home rather than the Southwestern desert where Schutmaat works on his long-term projects.
Photographed in the American West's deserts, the work depicts endurance amidst environmental decline, economic dispossession, and societal uncertainty.