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Jerry Atnip: The States Project: Tennessee

The first time I met Tennessee States Project Editor Jerry Atnip was at the Slow Exposures Festival in Zebulon, Ga. It was my first taste of Southern photography culture mixed with incredible Southern hospitality and Jerry made a memorable impression on m

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 When beginning this project, I elected to let go of control. I did set out with previsualized ideas of what I would be capturing, but discovered pretty quickly that it would be better, to react to things that presented themselves to me. To allow the moment and my observational skills while walking to guide the process of seeing, then recording this world. In the process, I discovered that, as suspected, it is the insignificant things in life that are significant.