Ryan McIntosh and Yogan Muller: Tracy Hills (PRE-ORDER)

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In capturing the paradoxically retrograde aspects of Tracy Hills’s “Future Villages,” McIntosh and Muller reveal the essential vulnerability of the structures beneath, forcing the viewer to ponder the fictions of permanence and the facts of entropy.

—  Britt Salvesen

Tracy Hills is a collaboration between Los Angeles-based photographers Ryan McIntosh and Yogan Muller in which they explore and document Tracy Hills—a new master-planned community of 4,700 homes currently being built in the central valley of California. While the project revisits some of the tropes of the New Topographics era, the work underscores the distinctly twenty-first-century ecological issues that the anachronistic nature of this kind of community seems to deny: unpredictable access to water, elevated heat, unsustainable development.

The shared concern that prompted the two photographers to begin documenting this community was not unfounded. A few months after they thought the project was finished, a wildfire swept through the area surrounding Tracy Hills, the aftermath of which they returned to capture. The book brings together images from both photographers, each working in their own distinct style and format, from the community before and after that devastating, but unsurprising, event.

SHIPS FALL 2025

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In capturing the paradoxically retrograde aspects of Tracy Hills’s “Future Villages,” McIntosh and Muller reveal the essential vulnerability of the structures beneath, forcing the viewer to ponder the fictions of permanence and the facts of entropy.

—  Britt Salvesen

Tracy Hills is a collaboration between Los Angeles-based photographers Ryan McIntosh and Yogan Muller in which they explore and document Tracy Hills—a new master-planned community of 4,700 homes currently being built in the central valley of California. While the project revisits some of the tropes of the New Topographics era, the work underscores the distinctly twenty-first-century ecological issues that the anachronistic nature of this kind of community seems to deny: unpredictable access to water, elevated heat, unsustainable development.

The shared concern that prompted the two photographers to begin documenting this community was not unfounded. A few months after they thought the project was finished, a wildfire swept through the area surrounding Tracy Hills, the aftermath of which they returned to capture. The book brings together images from both photographers, each working in their own distinct style and format, from the community before and after that devastating, but unsurprising, event.

SHIPS FALL 2025

  • Photography by Ryan McIntosh and Yogan Muller
    Texts by Britt Salvesen and Gregory Foster-Rice

    Two hardcover volumes in a slipcase
    9.75 x 12.5 inches
    264 pages / 124 images

    Trade ISBN: 9798890181206
    Signed ISBN: 9798890181213

  • Ryan McIntosh (b. 1984, California) is a Los Angeles-based artist and photographer. He received his MFA in Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design, and his BFA in Photography from University of Arizona. Ryan’s recent work revolves around mankind impact on the natural environment and the changing landscape of the Southwest. He photographs exclusively with an 8x10-inch view camera, committing himself to producing only handmade silver chloride contact prints in the traditional wet darkroom processes. 

    Yogan Muller (b. 1987, France) is a French-Algerian photographer, first-generation graduate, and educator whose work engages with the ecological crisis and its impact on landscapes and communities. He received a Practice-based PhD in Photography from ENSAV La Cambre and Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.