Southern Documentary Journal

  I am honored and excited to share with others that my image "Free Range to Oven Range" has been selected as an exhibition finalist in the photography exhibition and event, SlowExposures. For Southern photographers, this is a prestigious event and I am honored to have my work chosen and exhibited. SlowExposures is a unique occasion spanning four days in September (17th through the 19th) in a community which has no name nor geographical boundaries…

For Ann and Ron Fay at Rising Meadow Farm, spring is the most awaited time of the year with the daily arrival of new born lambs.  It is also the time of the year that is most demanding physically. Ann and Ron have set the bar high as their credo is "only the best will do" which applies to the quality of food sources, environment, and mode of harvest. They believe that this level of care…

  The planning and execution of the photograph on the right took over two years to complete.  I was aware of this local geological defect for some time and the stories related by the owners about the "first flood" were astounding.  Their early conversations with DOT were not confrontational or demanding; however, they would have preferred having their ditch filled in and the causing factor relieved. In 2014, the NCDOT advertised and issued a contract for…

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays this herder from the completion of his appointed rounds" ... adapted  from USPS.  Ron Fay, who with his wife Ann, created the Rising Meadow Farm in Randolph, County, NC over 20 years ago and donated a conservation easement to the Piedmont Land Conservancy to prohibit forever the building of a big box store on their farm.  They did all of  this because it was "the right thing to do." "We…