Fotografía/ Birney Imes

The Skin Man Place, Belzoni, 1986

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.