During production on his new film Hidalgo, Viggo Mortensen was so moved by the reenactment of an Indian ritual known as the Ghost Dance for the movie that he had to capture it on film himself. The resulting panoramic photos, utilizing dreamlike long-exposures, have been collected in a new book, Miyelo, published by Perceval Press. “When you have these figures, these humans, moving,” says Mortensen of his surreal technique, “you can see the echoes of their movements, their residue as they’re moving through frame…It makes their presence sometimes so thin that they become one with the landscape, one with the […]