It never ends

Each of the images in this small set is a composite that merges a photograph from the Civil Rights Era with an image I recently photographed in Tennessee or Mississippi. Although compelling in their own way, the photographs from the earlier era are not mine. I cannot claim any sort of originality with only them. The images that I recently photographed are not particularly original or artistic on their own, nor are they meant to be. Rather, when I photographed them I had a future use in mind. In working with the earlier photographs and my own images, my intention was to select one of each and then combine them to in such a way that the composite image would evoke some sort of past-present connection. That is, problems of the past remain problems in the present. Our response to these problems, however, need not be only one of resignation. Our collective response can offer support and seek solutions in the present and future.