LUC RABAEY: ‘APPROACHING THE MISSISSIPPI’
«For this photographic essay I followed the roads from Memphis to the south in the states of Mississippi and Louisiana at about 1 to 20 miles away from the Mississippi river just before wintertime 2010 and 2011. I had no for knowledge. There was just a undefinable attraction to the history of black people and a preference for blues music. I had no other plan than staying away from the riverbank.
Can one photograph the soul of a undefined subject? Can photographs combine past and future, present and absent?
For years the region is poor and forgotten, many houses in decay, grey dry landscapes, unbelievable number of churches. I want to show my experience in a sober and respectful way.
[…] Well, the emptiness is endless, cold as the clay You can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way Only one thing I did wrong Stayed in Mississippi a day too long
Bob Dylan
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