9 | Photo Essay: Inside The American West's Mining Boom | Co.Design | business + design: Since 2006, San Francisco-based photographer Lucas Foglia has been traveling through the American West to document the mining boom that has overtaken rural areas of states like Wyoming and Montana in a compilation of striking images.
His series, Frontcountry, began when Foglia first visited a close friend who had just moved to Wyoming. "The community felt small and the land felt bigger, harsher, and more remote than anything I had experienced," he tells Co.Design