ICW is excited to host Laura Wilson as she discusses her photography and understandings of the American West. Wilson’s portraits and images span from Montana to Mexico, trick riders to writers. The conversation will also include a discussion of her time working with and book about Richard Avedon, Avedon at Work: In the American West. Laura Wilson will be joined in conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Logan, ICW Co-Director.

Laura Wilson is a photographer and author whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, GQ, London’s Sunday Times Magazine and theWashington Post Magazine. Her books include: Watt Matthews of Lambshead (1989; second edition 2007; third edition 2023), Hutterites of Montana (2000), Avedon at Work: In the American West (2003), Grit and Glory: Six-Man Football (2003), That Day: Pictures in the American West (2015), From Rodin to Plensa: Modern Sculpture at the Meadows Museum (2018), The Writers: Portraits by Laura Wilson (2022) and Roaming Mexico (2025). She was awarded the Royal Photographic Society of England’s Book of the Year for Avedon at Work.