Second edition, 2026
Softcover
11.75 × 14.75"
188 pages
90 tritone plates on uncoated paper
Softcover with 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 across the arid and expansive landscapes of the American West, the work explores human resilience and endurance.
Schutmaat offers a contemporary vision of the “open road,” reflecting on a new era of uncertainty and anxiety. Against a backdrop of environmental decline, economic dispossession, and social neglect, Sons of the Living draws attention to the challenges ahead while searching for signs of hope and the strength to endure.