Delta
22 images Created 16 Feb 2016
The alluvial plain south of Memphis on either side of the Mississippi River, in Mississippi and Arkansas is a cruel and brutal landscape of flat dusty cotton fields, blackwater bayous and heartbreaking poverty; a land with a mystique of mythical proportions. The Delta was the birthplace of the blues, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Al Green, Levon Helm and Muddy Waters. History shows everywhere one looks and it seems sometimes as if history has ended here.
This is where I was born and raised, and although I could not wait to get out, leaving home in 1973 upon graduation from high school, I have since been drawn back to re-discover it in pictures.
The images were made using an antique 8 x 10 camera and lens. A selection of 16 x 20 archival pigment prints are available in a boxed edition of twenty copies. Selected prints are also available as gelatin silver contact prints.
This is where I was born and raised, and although I could not wait to get out, leaving home in 1973 upon graduation from high school, I have since been drawn back to re-discover it in pictures.
The images were made using an antique 8 x 10 camera and lens. A selection of 16 x 20 archival pigment prints are available in a boxed edition of twenty copies. Selected prints are also available as gelatin silver contact prints.
