Second Edition 2026
11.75x14.75 inches
188 pages. 90 tritone plates on uncoated paper
Hard Cover with a Dust Jacket, Cloth cover and foil stamped text
Designed by Cody Haltom
Production management by Thomas Bollier
Dust jacket art by Jack Whitefield.
Sons of the Living is a photobook about the land and people along the highways of America’s deserts. Photographed over the course of a decade in the American West’s arid and sweeping terrain, this work depicts a human capacity for endurance. Schutmaat offers an updated view of the “open road” that addresses a new era of uncertainty and anxiety. Amidst a backdrop of environmental decline, economic dispossession, and societal neglect, Sons of the Living draws attention to trouble on the road ahead and searches for our hope to withstand it.