Miles Away

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Cow Camp, Idaho. The closest grocery store is about an hour drive away. You can go for miles and miles in any direction without finding any signs of civilization. At the end of each year, during ’round up’, this place is packed with people who help bring the cattle down to the valley before the frost of winter takes over.It’s August 2009 now and it feels like Cow Camp is the most desolate place in the world. For six months, this is the place that Gene and Josh, two young cowboys, call home. During this time, it’s their duty to take care of the cattle, doctor them if needed, manage the land and repair the fences.

The small house that they live in only provides them with the most basic needs. Running water or electricity are luxuries that are out of place in the life they live at Cow Camp. Life out here is tough, but it is their friendship and the love of the lifestyle that keeps them going. To Gene and Josh there is no existence more sacred. Born a cowboy, die a cowboy.

Comments

  1. Uw Moeder

    Knappe reeks man!

    • 10:52 am on February 11th, 2010

  2. Bart

    Mooie nieuwe lay-out! Zeer knappe reeks! Ik ben zeker dat er nog knappe reeksen zullen volgen. Ik ben ook wel fan van de gekozen kleurpatronen en de bewerking! Goed bezig!

    • 9:54 pm on February 11th, 2010

  3. Titus

    Bedankt Bart!

    • 9:57 pm on February 11th, 2010

  4. Kuff

    Feels like Brokeback Mountain

    • 6:32 pm on February 12th, 2010

  5. Pieter

    Prachtige reeks.

    • 10:33 pm on February 12th, 2010

  6. Joris

    Sterk!

    • 11:51 pm on February 12th, 2010

  7. Ewoud

    Zeer knappe fotos!

    • 8:49 pm on February 13th, 2010

  8. Vannessa

    We vinden de foto’s prachtig! Zoë vindt foto 4 heel erg mooi. Knap gedaan.

    • 9:19 am on February 14th, 2010

  9. ysabje

    knappe reeks seg. er zitten een paar parels tussen… profici met dit mooie werk.

    • 10:10 pm on February 19th, 2010

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    • 6:22 pm on March 23rd, 2010

  11. Marie

    Zo machtig.

    • 6:43 pm on March 23rd, 2010

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    [...] doorging op DOK Gent.  Op dit 1-daags foto-event was de voormiddag gevuld met het verhaal van van Titus Simoens over het project Miles Away,  gevolgd door een lezing over hoe we naar beelden kijken door Martien Van Beeck. In de namiddag [...]

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Titus Simoens was born on May 25th, 1985 in Ghent, Belgium.

After graduating in 2008 with a degree in photography at the Viso / Higro in Ghent, Titus completed a program for audiovisual techniques-photography in Antwerp where he won the “Nationale vereniging van Beroepsfotografen" award as a professional Belgian photographer. His thesis, 'Close to Romania', was presented in 'ScreenWorlds', an overview of contemporary photography at the Flemish Parliament, with a publication by Lannoo.

In 2009, Titus displayed his project called 'Haar en Hem' in the group exhibition 'Blue and Friends' at the Fotomuseum in Antwerp.

In 2009, Titus traveled to the United States on a two month journey where he worked on his his latest series, “Miles away”. In this work, Titus shows his audience the life of two young cowboys living on a “Cow Camp” in Idaho. This series was a part of Titus’s search for the real American cowboys and is still in post production.

Currently, Titus Simoens is a Deinze-based photographer, working also as an assistant to fashion photographer, Peter Verplancke, in Roeselare, Belgium and as a freelance photographer. Recently Titus joined the agency Globe reports.