These images were taken along the Mormon Trail, and Mormon Rocks along I-15 and the Cajon Pass. This is one of the trails that led European settlers traveling on one of the overland trails to Southern California during the mid-1800’s. Indigenous communities had occupied the region for a few hundred years before the arrival of the Mormon settlers, yet their arrival made a lasting impact as the way of life was forever changed for those who had already made the region their home. Settlers laid claim to the land, mined it, developed it, and named it. This body of work was made for the In the Sunshine of Neglect exhibition at the California Museum of Photography, curated by Douglas McCulloh.
