About

Leland Buck is a Montana writer, landscape photographer, and printmaker working primarily in large-format film and intaglio printmaking processes. Based in Missoula and originally from the mountains of southern Colorado, Leland's work explores the convergence of natural forces and human histories across the American West. Through patient fieldwork in mountains and river systems, he captures scenes that reveal the continuity between past and present—depicting places in context of human and natural historical change. Leland prints his work using historical and alternative techniques including photogravure, salted paper, albumen, kallitype, and cyanotype, combining material experimentation with reverence for traditional craft. Seeking to expand his ability to render in print, he also explores traditional non-photographic printmaking practices including drypoint, hard ground, soft ground, aquatint, and sugarlift. He is comfortable interrogating the landscape of the American West through the image-making process, always trying to render the beauty and resilience of these changing environments alongside their underlying vulnerability, reflecting the timeless yet fragile spirit of the West.

Leland holds undergraduate degrees in History and Russian Languages and Literatures, and a Masters in Computer Science.