Photographed within the historic Willamette Falls Paper Mill in West Linn, Oregon — a site layered with over a century of industrial evolution and quiet resilience. Once part of Crown Zellerbach, later West Linn Paper, and finally reborn as Willamette Falls Paper Company, the mill now stands between legacy and uncertainty.
These images were created not as documentation, but as reflection — exploring the geometry, rhythm, and melancholy of a place built on craft and persistence. Light, metal, and time converge here, revealing the beauty that lingers after the machinery stops.
From the series “Industrial: Paper,” exhibited in Photographic Intentions (2019, Chehalem Gallery, Newberg, OR).
