Far off there is the ocean, but here is the country of high rounded mountains, rivers and pasture, and of the people who cross it, share it and keep it up. This land is the Basque hinterland, straddling France and Spain between the Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay: a proud place of wild beauty, often fantasised about and wrapped in a mystical haze, which Rearick photographs from inside instead.