The Off-Season is a series of photographs exploring Livingston, Montana in the fall and winter months. At this time of year, the tourists who typically fill the streets, gas stations, and hotels leave behind only the residents of the area. Empty roads, gray skies and drained public pools make the bustling town a much more desolate landscape. As an outsider to Montana, I am constantly looking to capture the reality of this state, whatever that may be. Although I have never really felt at home in Montana, I am looking to find what makes this place home for its natives, and The Off-Season is a color series exploring just that. I don’t want to capture the kitschy, cowboy stereotypes my home state assigns to the place I now reside. With this series I want to capture what my classmates call the familiar—gray skies, empty streets and bleak wilderness. The Off-Season depicts what I, as an outsider, can only imagine to be closest to the ‘real’ Montana.