Powerful Photo Series Examines Post-Tobacco Era Durham, NC – Feature Shoot

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Powerful Photo Series Examines Post-Tobacco Era Durham, NC – Feature Shoot

Fireworks burst over the Durham Bulls Athletic Park in revitalized downtown Durham, N.C., July 4, 2014. Kalin Swinney paused by his first cousin’s casket, 9-year-old Jaeden Sharpe, after his committal…

via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2014/09/justin-cook/

Durham-based photographer Justin Cook has been working on Made in Durham, the story of those not included in the wake of this renewal, since he was a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and plans to continue long into the future. The work focuses on what remains in post-tobacco era Durham, amidst education in peril, homicide, and “urban renewal” (for some).