Friday, March 30, 2012

Launch of "Back Roads to Back Home: Finding the Voices of the Sunshine State"


My hands smell like fixer. Darkroom day. I'm pleased to present the first photograph from the new project, "Back Roads to Back Home: Finding the Voices of the Sunshine State." Great launch of the project by photographing and hearing the rural perspectives of this 15-year old, Volusia County resident.

Excerpt: "I’ve really grown up around agriculture. It's a lifestyle. But it doesn't mean that you wear straw hats. It doesn't mean you wear red plaid, flannel shirts. You do urban things. You go out and work with science and engineering. But you always come back to: “Oh, I need to go feed the cows; have we let the horses out?” So that part of it defines what agriculture is. But, it's not just "cows, sows, and plows."