Horseshoe Bend — the Colorado River curving around a sandstone butte under a soft sky.

Plate II of XII

The River’s Turn

Horseshoe Bend, Arizona, USA · 2025

The Colorado, a thousand feet down, turning back on itself.

Master print

The canyon read as pure form — flat midday light turned to a radical black-and-white, the butte sculpted in shadow and luminous rock, the river dropped to a black ribbon of negative space.