Historical Marker

My love of photography began with a 1976 Nikon F2 film camera gifted to me in 2002.  I worked on lighting and all the techniques needed to use a manual camera and quickly found a love for the darkroom.  Most of my photography was of my friends, cityscapes, and the less formal candid type photographs of people doing what they do every day in life.  After my husband died, my focus turned from the living to graveyards and cemeteries where I slowly began working through grief.  Eleven years later, my focus remains on the cemetery, but it also includes a passion for travel, history, and investigating the idea of death and its impact on the living.

Latest Project: 

Hallowed Grounds:

This body of work has been a very emotional journey , as I uncover information about each place I’ve photographed and weave it into my creative process.  It explores the concept of energy left behind after death woven in with the Geechee belief: When a person dies, their body goes into the ground, their soul rests, and their spirit roams the earth until Judgement Day. This belief is the needle threading history, social injustice, oppression, and a respect for those who have passed to reveal history existing in today’s world.  As the world progresses, this Geechee belief allows the past to quietly exist in a space where many in today’s busy world either, revere, ignore, or simply are not aware of its existence.