The photographs in this series were taken in the southern United States in 2015. They were created through a specialized technique utilizing Polaroid 665 Positive/Negative film. by keeping the negative and positive joined together and submerged in water over a period of weeks and/or months, the developer and the reagent begin to react against each other, creating a series of fissures and cracks in the emulsion surface. The majority of the initial photographs were first taken in the Mississippi Delta region and New Orleans, Louisiana, two environments with a particularly tortured history in the United States, both socially and economically. This technique mirrors the hardship and struggle that have always been a part of this region, as well as the catastrophic effects of multiple natural and man-made disasters in a post-Katrina America. The long-obsolete Polaroid format reflects the ongoing influence of the past on the present in this continually fraught region.
