Storms (Relié)

Mitch Dobrowner has been chasing storms since 2009, traveling throughout Western and Midwestern America to capture nature in its full fury. Making photographs in the tradition of Ansel Adams, to the highest standard of craftsmanship, Dobrowner creates extraordinary black-and-white images of monsoons, tornados, and massive thunderstorms that conjure awe and wonder. As Dobrowner states in the book's afterword, "I experience storms as living beings, organic things, both rational and unpredictable in the way they look, how they move, grow, and die.
Every storm is different ; each has a unique character. My job is to capture a portrait of each storm encounter, an image that does each one justice as if the storm was a person". Dobrowner's photographs been published widely by magazines, including National Geographic, Time, and the Los Angeles Times. They are introduced here by Gretel Ehrlich, the American travel writer and poet, who creates her own images, in words, that evoke the stormy spirit of the American West.