About Nathan Larson

Nathan Larson

Photographer • Poet • Author

Nathan Larson (born 1973 in Utah) is an American fine art photographer, poet, and author whose work explores landscape, memory, place, and the human experience. Raised between the Rocky Mountains and Vermont's Green Mountains, he developed an enduring fascination with the relationship between people and the places they inhabit.

Larson's photographic practice encompasses landscape, portraiture, rural documentary photography, and visual storytelling. His work examines the beauty and complexity of the natural world, the character of rural communities, and the often fragile connections between people and place.

He began photographing at a young age and later studied at the University of Chicago, where he also developed his interest in poetry and creative writing. Over the following decades, photography became his primary artistic practice, eventually expanding into books that combine photographs, poetry, and documentary storytelling.

His photographs have appeared in magazines, galleries, on book covers, and in collections internationally. His photographic work is available as fine art prints and large-scale installations.

Larson travels full-time, making photographs, writing poems, and collecting stories across North America and beyond. His creative work continues to explore the experience of living between places, the passage of time, and the meaning of belonging.


Selected Commissions, Installations & Commercial Clients

Commissions, installations, and commercial work have included projects for Penguin Random House (VINTAGE), Memorial Sloan Kettering, and Boston Children's Hospital. His photography is represented by Wild Apple for licensing.

Here in Hanover · Image Magazine · Carriage Barn Arts Center – Juried Selection · Wild Apple · Penguin Random House – VINTAGE · Mountain View Publishing · Memorial Sloan Kettering · Lyme Inn · Twin State Derby · Cosmetic Laser Therapy & Complete Skin Care Center · Boston Children's Hospital · ME Reps · River Camp


Selected Books & Publications

Unspun (coming soon)

Poems and Photographs. A limited edition of 100 signed and numbered softcovers.

52 pages
ISBN: 979-8-9998344-3-0

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Poems and Photographs from Living at the Edges of North America. A collection bringing photography and poetry together as a single body of work, shaped by years of travel through remote North American landscapes.

128 pages
Limited first edition hardcover: December 2025; Kindle ebook: February 2026
Hardcover ISBN: 979-8-9998344-0-9
EPUB ISBN: 979-8-9998344-2-3
Amazon Kindle ASIN: B0GQ5CFDGF

Book information Purchase Wikidata record Goodreads Amazon

Image Magazine, “Close Encounters of a Bear Kind” (Summer 2025)
Avian (2017)

A photographic monograph exploring birds through Larson's fine art photography.

Part of Why We Stay, a two-volume photography and rural ethnography project documenting people, communities, and the meaning of place in Vermont.

Vermont Life Magazine, “Facebook” (Spring 2014)
Capture Vermont Volume 2 (2013)
Pedimont Publishing & Burlington Free Press
Cloud Hunter (2012)

A photographic monograph centered on clouds, atmosphere, and the changing sky.

Capture Vermont Volume 1 (2012)
Pedimont Publishing & Burlington Free Press

The first volume of Why We Stay.


Interviews & Media

Utah Public Radio, Access Utah
Exploring the edges of North America
July 10, 2026. An interview about travel, photography, poetry, and Field Notes on Avoidance.

Vermont Public, Vermont Edition
Novelist Tim Weed, photographer Nathan Larson, and filmmaker Robbie Leppzer
May 13, 2026. A public radio program featuring Larson's photographic work.


Official Profiles & Identity Records

Nathan Larson, also known as Nate Larson, is the photographer, poet, and author represented by the following official and bibliographic records.

Wikidata person identifier: Q141805778
Amazon author identifier: B0GQ6DNYCS
Goodreads author identifier: 73087501