AGAINST THE GRAIN by Mark Maio /backlog who works with other celebrated

who works with other celebrated stage and image artists

the hometown of Ronald Reagan

accompanied by text from writer Amy Bonnaffons

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AGAINST THE GRAIN by Mark Maio /backlog who works with other celebratedPhotographer 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