“Summer of Our Discontent” is a photographic journal exploring the identity of contemporary American Southerners, and their relationship to their environment.
The purpose of these photographs is to explore what precisely Southern American culture is, and how it fits among a wider context of consumerism, capitalism, and political discontent. In these bright images, issues hide just out of frame- more like mere suggestions than reality.

Shadows are long and dark on a hot, lazy, summer’s day. Family units on vacation, self-imposed isolation, a man smiling with a gun, the potential of childhood, the potential of pollution. Photos of a playful summer filled with trepidation.

How do we as a culture uniquely interact with our surroundings and our community? What does it mean to be Southern in the modern United States? What role do we play in our future as individuals, a society and the world at large?

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