AGAINST THE GRAIN by Mark Maio /backlog This special limited edition book

This special limited edition book and gelatin silver photograph publication is comprised of two sets of forty-five books

accompanied by text from writer Amy Bonnaffons

the hometown of Ronald Reagan

and show anyone struggling with identity today the joy of what could have been and can still be

honoring the gravity of its subject matter through high-quality materials

AGAINST THE GRAIN by Mark Maio /backlog This special limited edition bookPhotographer Mark Maio devoted more than three decades to create the images that document the last years of a tough minded gang of Great Lakes union men that celled themselves Scoopers. They operated in groups of eighteen, referred to as gangs, and their primary responsibility was to unload large grain hauling vessels from the nineteenth century and into the twenty first. The first of the scoopers touched the edge of American history, for many were