In The North Fork, Trent Davis Bailey turns his attention to a remote river valley in western Colorado. A Colorado native, he was drawn to his home state's vastness, rich agrarian history and the varied characters who inhabit the Western Slope. He was especially curious about relatives who had lived there—an aunt, an uncle and cousins—whom he had not seen for almost 20 years. Recalling them from childhood, he says: "They lived in a large tent at the foot of a mountain. Their backyard had three ponds and a garden where they grew their own food. Beyond it was a dense forest of oak and juniper where I imagined coyotes, black bears and mountain lions lurking." Bailey marvelled at his cousins' world, but a falling-out between his father and uncle meant he visited North Fork only a few times as a child. In 2011 he returned to the valley and, over the next seven years, used photography to piece together his experience of North Fork and its inhabitants. In time he not only found his relatives but renewed their bonds while forging his own place in the local community. Then, one fateful day while foraging for mushrooms, he met the woman who is now his wife and with whom he has two children. Together, the photographs in this book draw on that backstory while reaching far beyond it, evoking their own associations of place, food, kinship and wonder.