Between Streets: A Photographic Survey of the Carter Addition

            I’ve been photographing the Carter Addition for two years. It is a small community found in Johnson City, Tennessee that was first developed in 1910 by George L. Carter and is now bounded by East Tennessee State University (west), Walnut Street (north), South Roan (east), and University Boulevard (south). 

 When I first started working in the Tree Streets  (its newest title) I was interested in the eclectic nature of the place and people. However, looking back at the work I’ve produced this far, I begin to understand that there is much more to it then that.  This neighborhood is not only a place to live but an important influence on the lives lived there. My photographs reflect the relationship between the place and its people through both portraiture and the documentation of inanimate objects and landscape. I also find great joy in the process of copying information through drawing and the discovery of found drawings during my photographic ventures.  

By working in both color and black and white I was able to push my portraiture and landscapes into their own veins of existence where one (color) becomes an integration of the figure into the landscape while the black and white photographs highlight the impressions of the physical world.

This exhibition is a small part of what will become an everlasting project. The photographs shown here are simply a survey of the Tree Streets and indefinitely reflect a particular time where the congruity between people and place becomes evident.