My work comes out of a long association and connection to the people and region of coastal South Carolina. As a child, I used to travel up Highway 17 from Charleston to Pawley’s Island to visit my grandparents. I was fascinated by the landscape, the marsh lands, the Santee Delta and wondered about the people who lived in the small villages and attended the churches along the roadside.

Since then, I have lived and worked in Pawley’s Island and McClellanville. My photographic method, if it can be described as such, is to get to know people in a community and return over time to photograph them, often giving them prints I make. My connections through friends and family have given me a special access to people in and around those communities.

My work has been influenced, in part, by the traditions of documentary and portrait photography as well as my long association with and love of the people and landscape of Lowcountry South Carolina.