About
Anthony Allison is a photographer based the Californian high desert and working throughout the American West.
His work focuses on the human imprint on our landscapes and the fleeting moments, dilapidated relics, and oddities in between.
Anthony grew up in Camarillo, California, a place known for being a quiet, pastoral respite from the Los Angeles sprawl. Throughout childhood, he watched as acres of strawberry fields adjacent to his neighborhood were bulldozed to develop sterile subdivisions, vast strip malls, and wider freeways. He began photographing this landscape undergoing permanent change out of instinct, and it has remained an ongoing project.
He moved to Washington in 2015 and returned to California in 2023 with an expanded scale of work that included the clear-cut forests of the Pacific Northwest, irrigated inland deserts, and forgotten places along the way. Other genres have included skateboarding, documentary work, and a search for (mostly) unspoiled backcountry landscapes. In each of these subject areas, he has worked predominantly with analog film ranging from 35mm to large format 4x5.