As Patience Gray said in Honey from a Weed, “once we lose touch with the spendthrift aspect of nature’s provisions epitomized in the raising of a crop, we are in danger of losing touch with life itself.” Unfortunately, in this day and age of industrialized food, we’ve all but lost touch with food and our agrarian past. Perhaps we should reconsider the wisdom of a land-based economy before it’s too late.
In my full-time job as a photojournalist I struggle to maintain a clinical distance from my subject. I want to immerse myself in those that I meet and take a little bit of them away with me when I leave. There are so many stories to be told – so much to learn from what’s still left of the past as well as from the present.
Coming into this profession late in life I’m constantly learning, growing and discovering myself through my work. We are all so much more connected than we realize and that doesn’t mean through Facebook or other social media platforms.
My college education includes two Associates Degrees from Catawba Valley Community College, one in Photographic Technology and the second Fine Arts. I graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.