“Nothing in the world is a matter of black and white, not even in Mississippi, where everything is a matter of black and white” – Richard Rubin. This quote goes to the core of my project: recording ‘real life’ in small communities throughout Mississippi through a series of road trips using black-and-white film and vintage cameras as a way to understand the place I now live. The sometimes resulting imperfections, soft focus and vignetting serve as markers for how landscape, race and religion have played a part in the complicated history of Mississippi and still affect lives today.
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