I had a rare opportunity to visit several private former rice plantations in the South. The beautiful and massive old Live Oak trees, draped with swinging Spanish moss that graced every peaceful plantation had born witness to unspeakable horror in the past. Slave cabins still stood and a haunting, frightening aura permeated the land.

I felt it deeply throughout the time I spent here.

This body of work was photographed and developed on site with the 1850’s wet plate collodion process and an 8” x 10” Kodak Masterview camera.