Tag: Rural
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The Battle Between Ethiopian Boys and Monkeys
The cliffs and plateaus of the Agame massif. One of the unexpected experiences of my trip to Ethiopia’s Tigray region was witnessing the daily conflict between local boys and gelada monkeys. Endemic to Ethiopia, gelada monkeys are especially plentiful in the country’s central northern mountains. While some of these areas are protected “natural” lands, a…
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Transitions Between Here and There
My interest in the transformation of the built environment started with watching the razing of central Indiana farmsteads for suburban expansion in the early 1990s. These buildings, like the one below, became the subjects of my first landscape photographs. Hamilton County, Indiana, 1994 While I typically work in urban areas now, I make an effort…
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Sparta, Georgia
Sparta is the county seat of Hancock County, the poorest county in Georgia. I visited it to continue my collaboration with John Eason on rural prison towns. A selection of my photographs of the town are below. View all of my images from Georgia on flickr.