Strata Editions is an experimental photography project and store presenting collections of photobooks, photographic art, and furniture designed in-house. By focusing on visual and material work through a thematic lens, we offer a space to consider the relationships between photography, self, environment, and production. The works we share tell stories about ourselves, and about how we tell stories. 

Strata serves as a reading room for anyone who passes through its physical and online doors. Some of the books in our collections are not readily available for purchase elsewhere; they are either sold out, out of print, or imported. The titles we offer have been made available directly by the publishers or the artists themselves, and our hope is that you’ll want to share these books with friends and family and add them to your own library.

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Strata Editions resides at the edge of the Middle Rockies and the Northwestern Great Plains, the ancestral home of the Apsáalooke (Crow), the Cayuse Umatilla and Walla Walla, the Hidatsa Minnetaree, the Cheyenne, the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, the Salish, and the Tukudyka’a people.

Nearby, the Yellowstone River flows northeast from the Rockies, close to the head of the Missouri River Basin. The area has seen major flooding events, and as recently as 2015, oil spills cause by the Bridger, Exxon Mobil, and Tad True corporations. The Yellowstone’s name originated as Yellow Rock River: the Minnetaree call it Mi tse a-da-zi and the Cheyenne call it Mo’éheo’hé’e. Local people of the Crow named it Elk River: E-chee-dik-karsh-ah-shay.

The cropped map you see here layers features of the area’s geological formations, Indigenous territories, rivers, and state political boundaries sourced from Backcountry Chronicles, the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, Montana Tech of the University of Montana, Native Land Digital, and the U.S. Geological Survey.

Strata Editions has a new home in Livingston, Montana.

18 Business Park Road
Unit 1C
Livingston, MT 59047

Lucid Pleasures, our third collection, is open to the public from March 16, 2025–June 21, 2025.

You're also welcome to come say hi outside of these times—just let us know in advance and we can set something up.

Reach out via email:
will@strata-editions.com

We are currently offering three collections:

Lucid Pleasures, curated in collaboration with Gnomic Book, a wide-eyed reflection on the surreal—at times, downright absurd—atmosphere of the current political and social climate both here and abroad and how we can locate ourselves in acts of imagination as a means to discover the beauty (and freedom) within the noise of it all.

Southern Spirit, a meditation on a place of beauty and decay, deliverance and devastation, faith and fossil fuels.

And Western Contemporary, a study of present reflections, visions, and connections of place, beings, and ideas in the American West.

CONTACT

Email
will@strata-editions.com

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@strata.editions