Lauren Grabelle

Northwest Montana Fair (2010 & 2023)

Anti Neo-Nazi rally at the Kalispell public library where members of Pioneer Little Europe, a white nationalist group, were showing a Holocaust denial film, resulting in the arrest of one of their members.

Nick loses his service dog of 14 years and soon after gets a new friend.

Montana ghost towns

After a fire in 1904 wiped out 60 businesses, the northern Montana town of Havre moved underground while they rebuilt the town. Today you can take a tour through the reconstructed spaces under the town which include a brothel, chinese laundry and opium den, saloon, and dentist office. A railroad museum is also upstairs where you buy your tickets. More info here: http://prairiepopulist.org/havre-beneath-streets-1/

The Wild Mile on the Swan River in Bigfork, Montana. Class 5. Assignment for Montana Elements magazine - going down the river standing up - and backwards - in a cataraft.

Save A Sister Bachelor Auction at the Blue Moon in Columbia Falls, Montana, 2010.

A selection of images from my travels to Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Arkansas

I'm always curious who else is on the trail with me in NW Montana.

An experimental trip in the woods. Please take some dramamine before proceeding. All effects are real, in camera and my mind, not post-production.

Northwest Montana Fair 2010, Kalispell, Montana

My first year of living in LA. The year: 2000. All shot on a Canon point-and-shoot with Kodachrome.

In 1989 I lived in Beardstown, Illinois for six weeks while working on an archeology field school while attending NYU. These are photos I took there while not digging and covered in dirt.

Sugar + Maverick: A weimaraner and pit bull have a dog play date in the snow

Dog Sports: Lure Coursing and Agility trials

Selection of early work from the 1980's

In the summer of ’74 I went to day camp and heard my first ghost stories up on a wooded hill that looked out over a state psychiatric hospital that was fully operational at the time. In 2004 after it had been shuttered, but before it was completely demolished, I stopped by for a visit. Marlboro Psychiatric Center in Marlboro, NJ, photographed in 2004 before demolition and 16 years after it was closed.

Pioneer Cemetery in Idaho City, Idaho