Tarrah Krajnak - no title, from the "Dark Messengers" series

Over the last five years, Krajnak has journeyed between her two homes – the American West and South America – using her 35 mm camera to examine the complex aspect of the “human condition,” and to discover its traces in the landscape, making visible patterns of inhabitation, loss, and erasure. Dark Messengers takes its title from Heraldos Negros, a collection of poems by early twentieth-century Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo. Similarly, Krajnak's photography series is a visual poem set in these troubled, vulnerable Americas, and asks: whose histories are worth recording and whose are not and why? And how?