"During different phases of his work, Metzker described photography both as a vacuum cleaner used to suck up every detail and as a process like collecting butterflies."
"If this land is to survive humanity’s most destructive impulses, perhaps a first step is to undo the Marlboro Country mythology of the West: to question, to see again, to see anew."
"The deserts of Arizona and California are many things to many people, and they are also certainly graveyards, landscapes now defined by human remains."