Palo Gallery is pleased to present Lightfall, the second solo exhibition at the gallery by acclaimed British photographer and filmmaker Jane Hilton. Featuring a body of 12 photographs and one video work, Lightfall offers an intimate and incisive look at the people and places that have shaped Hilton’s three-decade exploration of the American West.
In this new series, Hilton turns her attention to the emotional and symbolic role of light across Western landscapes and the lives embedded within them. Lightfall brings together portraits and vistas that are quintessential to the artistic and iconographic saga of American photography; in direct dialogue with the likes of Egglestone, Watkins, Lange and Adams.
Among the works included are select pieces from Dead Eagle Trail, Hilton’s celebrated series of cowboy portraits made in the homes of Nevada buckaroos and Arizona cowpunchers. Shown here in conversation with lesser known landscapes, these portraits underscore themes such as the legacy of a fading culture, the rituals of daily life, and the pull of heritage in a rapidly shifting world, all central ideas to Lightfall.
