Rolling Deep with the Black Cowboys of the Mississippi Delta – Feature Shoot

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Rolling Deep with the Black Cowboys of the Mississippi Delta – Feature Shoot

You wouldn’t know it from the films or the television shows, but the Lone Ranger was a Black man by the name of Bass Reeves. Born into slavery in Crawford…

via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/01/rolling-deep-with-black-cowboys-mississippi-delta/

Hailing from Maine, photographer Rory Doyle headed South and set up shop, working as a freelance editorial and commercial photographer in Cleveland, Mississippi, the heart of the Mississippi Delta. Here he began a series of work titled Delta Hill Riders, a portrait of Black cowboys today. Here, Doyle shares his experiences creating these photographs, portraits of a way of life whose history is still being told.