Following my exhibition Small Town America (displayed in Topsham throughout November), I returned to the States for another trip before the year was out.
Having spoken with many people at home about the project, I returned to Tennessee with a matured mindset & saw the people & place in a renewed light. If anything, I think my photos were more focused this time.
I look forward to editing the images during the New Year.
Here's one to give a taster...
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Hanging my exhibition Small Town America today!
It will be up for two weeks at The Café, 76 Fore Street, Topsham EX3 0HQ.
1st - 15th November
The Café is open Mon-Sat 9.30am-4.30pm, Sun 10.30am-4.30pm
Hope those who see it enjoy it…Please leave a comment in the visitors book if you do.
Small Town America is a documentary photography project set in Tennessee, incorporating a mixture of landscapes, portraits and church signs from the heart of the Bible Belt.
To quote writer Paul Theroux, who has just written a book on the South:
“The small towns of the Deep South say something about America that the big cities don’t. The towns show you how they’ve often been abandoned by their own governments, how they have been left behind by education and politics. It’s in the small towns you see the effects of poverty and the outsourcing of US manufacturing. Look at the smaller towns and you see the real America.‘
