I worked for Hunter for the last 2 years of his life - just for fun. As a photographer, I was extremely inspired by the assemblage of objects, words and images that Hunter had collected and strewn all over his compound at Owl Farm. I asked if I could photograph the “stuff”. Hunter told me that he thought it very important that someone photograph the house and thought that I was the perfect person. I set off to explore every nook and cranny and photographed the objects of Hunter S. Thompson’s history.

This photograph is of the door of Hunter S. Thompson’s War Room. This is the room where Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was written amongst many other works. At Owl farm in the 70’s and 80’s, the War Room, was the place where all of the round table discussions spawned inspiration for the Gonzo adventures of the time. It was the Sports Desk for Rolling Stone magazine, the center of intellectual orgies and other sorts as well; it was the nerve cell for Hunter’s entire buzz.

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Chloe Sells was born in Aspen, Colorado in 1976. From the beginning of her life, she traveled extensively throughout the world. She began photographing in 1993. Since then she has lived and worked in Nepal, Italy, Thailand and Botswana. Chloe photographs people, vistas, cultural signage and landscapes, which become visual fragments of the way that people live.  Her photographs create still narratives that chronicle her personal journeys and develop cultural dialogues. Through fragmentation in composition and irregular juxta-positions, her stories become unique to her experiences in the places that she travels.

Chloe attended the Rhode Island School of Design, from which she graduated in 2000 and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography with honors. For two years thereafter, she worked at Anderson Ranch in Aspen, Colorado with Terri Weifenbach, John Gossage, Donald Sultan and Ann Lauterbach. She was personal assistant to Hunter S. Thompson for two years preceding his death. Chloe currently lives between Los Angeles and Maun, Botswana where she is working on a photographic body of work on Botswana beauty pageants.

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