From Brian Paul Clamp’s article for Lensculture:

Flowers Drink the River is a gorgeously quiet monograph of haunting nocturnes replete with moths, snakes, and owls, which are animated by raw, animistic rituals—including naked women sensuously wrestling in mud and others pissing upon open hands from tree branches high above. The high-contrast images are at turns euphoric and perilous, magical and foreboding. But it is not until one of the final pages when a cryptic statement appears belying the metaphor implied by the beguiling photographs—namely the first two years of Guilmoth’s gender transition while living in a rural, predominantly right-wing town.

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