Photographer Alex Benja captures the hidden costs of the nation’s domestic wool and lamb industry, journeying alongside immigrant shepherds leading a herd of thousands of sheep.
Wyoming may be known as the cowboy state, but for photographer Alex Benja it was the shepherds that caught his eye.
These shepherds, primarily from Peru, were accompanying a herd that totals 10,000 sheep on their annual 300-mile round-trip migration as the seasons change — following the greenest pastures.Benja’s photographs in the deserts and mountains of Southwest Wyoming underscore the hidden costs of the United States’ $700 million sheep farming industry, which supplies grocery stores’ shelves with lamb and retailers’ clothing racks with wool fabrics.
As the seasons turn, grass, plants and edible things start to green up, moving higher and higher in elevation. The animals follow the action upward as the snow melts, hanging around the mountain tops in lush green areas with ample streams. Come fall, they make the reverse journey, and climb back down to the winter grazing lands.The sheepherders, who make about $1,800 per month, live outdoors in remote environments, without running water or electricity.
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