Price for Silver is a photographic exploration of Colorado’s mining legacy, focusing on the scars left on the land and the fragile, sometimes dismembered remains of mining communities. Unlike my previous exhibitions at the Molly Brown House Museum and the Teller House, which emphasized mining’s cultural and architectural resonance, this new body of work confronts the destruction and abandonment left in the pursuit of wealth.

The images center on collapsed buildings, decaying structures, and weathered ruins scattered across Colorado’s backcountry—remnants of once-thriving camps undone by economic shifts. The Coinage Act of 1873 demonetized silver, devastating these communities, leaving behind both social and environmental ruin.

Silver is not only a mineral resource but also a metaphor for money, government control, and the unrelenting human drive for riches—forces that have shaped, and scarred, both people and the land.