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👋🏻 Lo here! This is a shot of pro skateboarder, Cody Lockwood, at Treefort Music Fest in March. The HN crew road-tripped to Boise, Idaho in March to check out the festival and bring back ideas for its own Lincoln Calling music festival. (at The Outlook Project Gallery at Turbine Flats)

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Next up is a portrait I took of one of my favorite Lincoln bands, Bogusman, at a now demolished, abandoned burger joint in Lincoln. 🤘🏻 This photo, along with many others, will be on display this Friday at The Turbine Flats for FOM's Extant series. 🖤- Lauren (at The Outlook Project Gallery at Turbine Flats)

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#Repost @an_dickinson with @repostapp ・・・ @lincolnasiancenter / @fomedia - making last minute video and photo edits with the students before the show they've titled "Untold Migrant Stories" at @nebraskahistory museum tomorrow. If you support refugees, immigrants and journalism I think you'll really enjoy it, and it's an opportunity to show your support for these young people. If you don't support those things then you might at least learn something by coming and viewing their work.

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A woman harvests vanda orchids from Hilo nursery fields in Hawaii, March 1975.

Photographer: Robert Madden 

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Fishermen on the Nile, photographed by Ayman Aref Saad

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Bryan Schutmaat. West Texas ranching for Lucchese Boots

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We are very excited about the turnout and response the Anvil is getting! Thanks to everyone who participated, supported and attended the conference - we are excited to begin planning next year's iteration of the conference. Check out photos from @laurenjusticephoto and see videos of each presentation at the link in our profile. (at University of Nebraska-Lincoln COJMC Graduate Programs)

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Rick Hammond cracks a wry smile of exhaustion after chasing down a cow-calf pair that had crossed a fence line onto another part of the family's property. Farmers and ranchers never know what any day will hold and have to be ready at a moment's notice for hours of unexpected work.

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Kyle Galloway holds a calf's tail out of the way as his brother-in-law Jesse Hammond applies the R Diamond brand and the veterinarian prepares the inoculations. Many ranchers in eastern Nebraska choose not to brand their cattle, but Rick Hammond was raised near Curtis in western Nebraska at a time when cattle rustling was still rampant. "Trust everyone," Rick likes to say, "but brand your damn cattle."

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Kyle Galloway, Rick Hammond's son-in-law, checks on an electric fence that shorted out when snow laid prairie grass across the wire. After repairing fixing the problem, Kyle will count up the cattle to make sure none had strayed onto neighbors' property.

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The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife's fifth-generation homestead in York County, Nebraska, in hopes of passing it on to their four children. But as the handoff nears, their small family farm―and their entire way of life―are under siege. Beyond the threat posed by rising corporate ownership of land and livestock, the Hammonds are confronted by encroaching pipelines, groundwater depletion, climate change, the fickle demands of the marketplace, and shifting trade policies. From the summer of 2014 until the fall of 2015, my Ted Genoways and I followed the Hammonds, documenting the rapidly changing world of small, traditional farming operations and one family’s fight to preserve their legacy and the life they love. What we found is scheduled to appear in the coming months in Harper's magazine and as a book from W.W. Norton.

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Have you registered for the Anvil Rural Journalism Conference yet? Visit http://flyovermedia.org/anvil to sign up for the April 8 conference in Lincoln. Today, we announce our speakers. We’re very proud to include journalism professionals from many different backgrounds and with a variety of disciplines and areas of focus in our conversation about building a robust media relationship with rural communities. Check out the names below, visit the web page to register for in-person or live-stream attendance, and we'll see you in a few weeks! -- Mary Anne Andrei, freelance, documentary photographer and writer Tina Casagrand, The New Territory Chris Clayton, DTN/The Progressive Farmer Andrew Dickinson, Fly Over Media Joe Duggan, Omaha World-Herald reporter Ted Genoways, writer and editor, contributor to Mother Jones, The New Republic, OnEarth Matthew Hansen, Omaha World-Herald columnist Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton, freelance, Native Health News Alliance Rachel Myslivy, Climate and Energy Project, Water+Energy Progress Ryan Soderlin, Omaha World-Herald photographer Carson Vaughan, freelance, American Cowboy

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William Eggleston’s ‘Los Alamos’ on View at Foam in Amsterdam

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Fly Over Media is excited to present the Anvil Rural Journalism Conference with @newterritorymag. Follow the link in our profile for a conversation between FOM executive director Andrew Dickinson and The New Territory editor Tina Casagrand talking about the need for a discussion on the relationship between the media and rural communities. The Anvil is made possible with support from our host and sponsor, @unlcojmc; the Rural Futures Institute, @le_quartier_ and @ploughsharebrewing

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Fly Over Media is excited to present the Anvil Rural Journalism Conference with @newterritorymag. Follow the link in our profile for a conversation between FOM executive director Andrew Dickinson and The New Territory editor Tina Casagrand talking about the need for a discussion on the relationship between the media and rural communities. The Anvil is made possible with support from our host and sponsor, @unlcojmc; the Rural Futures Institute, @le_quartier_ and @ploughsharebrewing

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The Slow, Simple Portraiture Style of Josh Wool

To see more of Josh’s photography, follow @joshwool on Instagram.

Josh Wool’s (@joshwool) self-described approach to portraiture is incredibly slow and unapologetically simple. Using equipment and techniques that are more than a century old, the Brooklyn, New York-based artist painstakingly extracts his images from a process that begins with photographic plates and developing chemistry that he makes himself. From there, his portraits are crafted from a conversation, natural light when possible and the removal of any extraneous details or distractions.

“The folks in these pictures are artists, musicians, photographers, creatives and friends,” says Josh. “There’s a certain intangible thing that draws me to choose the people I photograph. In most cases, it’s some aspect of their persona — sometimes it’s their strength, others it’s a sense of vulnerability. With others, it’s something I just can’t put my finger on, but I know I need to photograph them.”

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Jason Photo Studio, San Francisco, California. Thank you for following along this week, it’s very exciting to share my work with you all, and bring some color to your lives! I hope you can continue to join me on my photographic journeys through America, @anrizzy. Till later, later.