Declan Wagar

Western Lifestyle Photographer - Jackson Hole

The Tetons were here before the first people arrived and they'll be here long after the last guest ranch closes. The mountains are impartial witnesses—to the Indigenous hunters who once tracked game across these valleys, to the working cattle culture that's endured for over a century, to whatever comes next.

Declan photographs what the landscape sees.

Based at Lost Creek Ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, he documents contemporary ranch life from the inside. The early mornings when breath clouds in sub-zero air. The solitude of a solo rider against impossible scale. The texture of a culture built on skill and endurance. His black-and-white images don't romanticize—they record what's actually here.

He came to Wyoming from Georgia by way of studying musical theatre, which taught him about mythology and performance. But the West called the way it calls certain people: as necessity, not choice. He brought his camera to Lost Creek Ranch and found his subject.

These photographs capture moments most people will only glimpse from a distance, if at all. Each limited-edition print is produced with deliberate craft—archival materials, careful tonal control, made to outlast what it documents.

The work asks you to feel your proper scale against something larger. The West has always done this. These photographs won't save it—nothing will. But they're honest records of what's here now: the work, the weather, the people who understand what the land asks of them.

That's worth preserving.