| Self-taught
visual folklorist Birney Imes' explorations of ramshackle juke joints and
wrack-and-ruin farms are, in part, a "subjective attempt at reconciliation,"
an all-in-the-family account of the unspoken race and class barriers that
partition the deep South. A life-long resident of Columbus, Mississippi,
Imes has been photographing the region for nearly thirty years, and his
images are rough keepsakes, reminders of a mutual dependence, lost and found.
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