Jerusha McDowell, Horsemen (DOCO 2022)

‘Horsemen’ is a collection of images capturing quiet moments of horsemanship and the remarkable relationship of trust and understanding that can exist between horse and man. They also hopefully give a glimpse of the quiet composure and gentleness the horsemen themselves. The images were originally assembled together with the following text: Horses are the best judge of character you’ll ever meet, they are a mirror to the soul. You cannot lie to horse. You cannot lie to yourself and expect a horse to trust you. There aren’t many people who can tell the difference but any horse would tell you if they could.... There are cowboys; and then, there are horsemen.

Images have been resized for web display, which may cause some loss of image quality. Note: Original high-resolution images are used for judging.