My long-time friend and collaborator, Charlie Thompson, will be reading from his new book, Going Over Home: A Search for Rural Justice in an Unsettled Land, at the Madison Container Company in downtown Marshall on Friday evening, March 6, at 6:30p.m.
We will also share the stage together for a few minutes looking at photographs from our trips and talking about them.
Charlie Thompson (second from left) talking with farmers in a feed mill in Iredell County, NC, 1986.
In 1986, I was a freelance photographer and had been hired by the Rural Advancement Fund (RAF), a non-profit farm advocacy organization, to photograph in rural communities in the two Carolinas. I was introduced to Charlie Thompson, one of the organization’s field organizers, who would take me to meet some of the farmers RAF worked with. This trip, our first of many, marked the beginning of a relationship that has lasted thirty-four years and taken us to numerous far-flung, out-of-the-way places.