First Friday Picture Show: Southern Reclamation by Meg Kassabaum
This month's Picture Show features the photography of Meg Kassabaum. Meg is a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Originally from a family of artists in St. Louis, Missouri, her passion for photography developed while traveling and working on archaeological digs throughout the American South. The small southern towns that have served as home for various summers and semesters provided locations for exploring the intersection of nature and culture, revealing places so long established that the human constructions blend seamlessly into the landscape. In her photography, she strives to shift away from concentrating on the structures human impose upon natural places, and rather focus on the moment when nature starts to take these places back.
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absolutely LOVE these photos. these are some wonderful examples of the ghosts of the old south.
ReplyDeletewhat hauntingly beautiful photos! i love the idea of capturing the way nature slowly consumes the past. simply lovely.
ReplyDeleteThese shots are gorgeous. Spooky mixed with beauty is always a treat to the viewer.
ReplyDeleteI love these Meg. What a fabulous coffee table book (i know, always thinking of Roots!) You are an amazing photographer with the perfect eye for color, substance and symmetry. SO impressed!
ReplyDeleteThese are some really cool photos. Abandoned and returning to nature. Something that we all must face on an individual level, and something that society must wonder if this is what the future holds for all of us. Haunting and thought provoking. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone! I am glad they have been enjoyed! I am actually gonna be spending the next three months or so in Mississippi (with a little bit of time in Louisiana and Tennessee as well). I look forward to finding some new hauntingly beautiful places.... in addition to seeing how some of the old ones have changed. Cheers!
ReplyDeletei was thinking just the same thing to happen to the huge construction left halfway finished next to our house.. (for lacking of money in half way, i think the company went corrupt on some point)
ReplyDeleteI wish the ivies and wild herbs would explode the glasses and invade it.. (though it needs a long time) the birds around make nests from rusty left around nails!
nice photos..