Tag: Pete Marovich

A year ago, Pete Marovich began noticing articles boasting about a Pittsburgh “resurgence.” He knew these pieces weren’t telling the whole story. His family grew up in Aliquippa, Pa., a decaying former steel town 20 miles from the city. In towns like it — basically a river’s crossing from Pittsburgh — no renaissance is happening. Not much of anything is happening.

The Gullah Geechee people are direct descendants of enslaved Africans who were brought to America from West Africa.

Africa endures in the language and customs of the Gullah people, descendants of slaves who have lived along the Carolina coast for generations, sustaining themselves through the land and water. Pete Marovich, who grew up in South Carolina aware of this distinctive culture, wanted to photograph these communities, so about a decade ago he pitched the idea to a magazine editor.