Presently based mostly in Montana’s Flathead Valley, photographer Aaron Agosto’s work is knowledgeable by the spirit and historical past of the American West. His sequence, “Brash Rodeo”, takes as its topic Montana’s longest working open rodeo. Run by a person named Vance Brash who moved to Montana from Pittsburgh in 2017. Brash completed constructing his residence within the spring of 2020 and located himself with free time and the will to attach with the place he now referred to as residence:
“I went to my first rodeo anticipating a violent spectacle, however as an alternative I used to be drawn to moments of softness. Softness within the mild, and within the interactions, softness in what I anticipated to be a rugged and hyper masculine surroundings. Over time the venture grew to become a means for me to construct a reference to a spot and tradition that wasn’t my very own, in addition to a option to problem my very own preconceived notions of what I had anticipated the American West to be. The mythology of the west I had all the time thought I had recognized was one in every of was one in every of rugged individualism, of brash machismo, and poetic solitude. As I grew to know the west I started to grasp a extra nuanced view of the place and tradition.”
