Claudio Composti Photography serves as an anthropological lens, capturing the essence of communities that preserve unique traditions and ways of life. In a rapidly globalized world, these images stand as a quiet resistance—defending identity, memory, and cultural singularity.
‘Along the Wind’ is an exploration of the natural landscape following the Wind River and its historically complex relationship with the local communities of Western Wyoming. Originally home to the Mountain Shoshone and Northern Arapaho, the harsh landscape inspires a necessary grittiness in accordance to the traditionally western lifestyle strongly embraced across the region. Regardless of their ruggedness, the people are eager to share the anomalies of their culture and land as they have informed each other throughout history.
