JERIMOTH

Everything here still comes down to one man, a saw, and the weight of a falling tree.

For more than thirty years, Bob Thurber has logged the woods of western Rhode Island. He owns Jerimoth Forestry, a custom logging outfit based in Foster, and works the old way—a chainsaw, an aging Mack, and a John Deere 518 skidder kept running season after season. His dog, Dukie, stands beside him through all of it.

This project follows that work through a single winter: the cut and the clearing, the machinery against the standing trees and refueled deep in the pines, the long stretches of cold and repetition between them. It’s a record of one of the oldest exchanges between people and the land—still carried out, in this corner of New England, by one man who does it by hand.