For more than five decades, I have traveled the world photographing people and places, listening for the stories that often go unheard.
Two residents of Old Tent City, a homeless encampment in Nashville, Tennessee, pose together as one holds a weathered American flag while the other sits on a handmade motorized bicycle, revealing themes of identity, resilience, patriotism, and community among people living on the margins of American society.
For more than two weeks he had been working on his motorcycle, in preparation for heading west.
Austin built this house from scrap wood he scavenged from miles around the Old Tent City encampment. Sadly the City of Nashville demolished his house stating that it was a safety hazard. The irony is that it took the bulldozers more than an hour to bring the structure down.
Three Lakota on horseback, one bearing the American Flag, ride through Oceti Sakowin (the main camp) at the Standing Rock No DAPL Protests.
Protestors, including two who are carrying a a stretched out American Flag, march to the ancestral burial grounds north of the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota during the No DAPL Protests.
Two workers shovel mounds of sawdust to cover the floor of the firing barn in preparation for curing the recently hung harvested tobacco leaves.
A worker lights small fires throughout the sawdust-covered floors of the dark fired tobacco firing barn. These fires will cause the sawdust to smolder, creating heat and smoke for the curing process.
Miss BB Pink of Wilson, North Carolina stands in her pink living room with her hands held high giving praise to God.
Najima, a Waffle House waitress, poses for a portrait, capturing the dignity, personality, and everyday stories of the people who shape America’s familiar roadside gathering places.
Junior and Theresa Edwards practice traditional hoop net fishing in the waters of South Louisiana, capturing a way of life shaped by generations of knowledge, family tradition, and a deep connection to the region’s waterways.
A young African American boy wearing a suit and tie completes the pilgrimage walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march and honoring the ongoing journey for civil rights and equality.
For more than five decades, I have traveled the world photographing people and places, listening for the stories that often go unheard.