Fred Strobel is a New York–based photographer whose work explores the overlap between place, performance, and everyday life. Working primarily with observational imagery, his photographs examine how people inhabit landscapes shaped by myth, tourism, and memory. Alongside these moments of human presence, his work also lingers on objects and environments that carry the quiet residue of use — tools, structures, and spaces that once guided, sheltered, or endured. His recent work focuses on the contemporary American West, balancing subtle irony with craft, absence, and continuity.