William Faulkner observed about the south, “A land where the past is not dead, it isn’t even past.” With a pinhole camera, I have photographed tangible evidence, in several southern states, of lives lived and ways of life vanished. Ruins-public and private, graves of persons long gone, and abandoned houses are my primary subjects. The “woman in white” who appears in a number of the images is my symbol for loss.

King William County, Virginia:
Woman in White by an Abandoned House 

Hanover County, Virginia:
Abandoned House, Interior

Edisto Island,  South Carolina:
Woman in White at the
Legare Mausoleum

Richmond County, Virginia:
Ruins of Menokin