Swamp
“I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.”
- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Doboy Sound I (2022)
Reynolds Duck Pond, Sapelo Island (2022)
Suwanee River Sill (2020)
Okefenokee Swamp Heron (2020)
Billy's Island, Okefenokee Swamp (2018)
Seagull #9865, Shem Creek, South Carolina (2013)
Migrating Great Egret, Chattahoochee River (2020)
Okefenokee Pinball Alley (2020)
Seventeen Mile Swamp IV (2020)
Cypress Knee, Seventeen Mile Creek (2020)
Seventeen Mile Swamp I (2020)
Seventeen Mile Swamp II (2020)
Marsh Forsythia, Seventeen Mile Creek (2020)
Seventeen Mile Swamp III (2020)
Flowering Dogwood, Mort (2021)
…a little more on why I shoot in swamps. I used to scout rivers from a canoe with a camera as an environmental activist, documenting illegal industrial drainpipes for evidence in lawsuits. I quickly started pointing the camera in the other direction too, making riverscapes that didn’t show human indifference to the planet. Years have passed, and I’ve returned to photographing Southern wetlands with an ecologically utopian vision, imagining a planet less burdened by human use.