No Fences by Mark McLennan is a lyrical and elegiac photobook exploring the fading myths and enduring spirit of the American West. Shot between 2020 and 2023 across Southern Alberta and West Texas, McLennan’s photographs move beyond highways into shadowy forests, wide plains, and the margins of rural communities. Inspired by 19th-century frontier poetry, this 88-page hardback book with slipcase captures the tension between romantic imagination and contemporary reality. McLennan’s images reveal remnants of a mythic identity—resilient, worn, and evocative—offering a meditative look at landscapes, ranch life, and the poetic isolation of the frontier.
Mark McLennan is a Canadian photographer whose work investigates the psychological landscapes of place, memory, and myth. After years abroad, he returned to North America to document rural communities and marginal geographies with a poetic, narrative-driven lens. No Fences is his most personal project to date, blending documentary sensitivity with a visual language steeped in literary tradition.
