Downstate
This body of work was produced between 1974 and 1975 while living in Carterville, Illinois. It includes work done for a documentary on the local high school, several visits to Fred’s Dance Barn and people that I encountered around town. Selected images were printed and exhibited at Alibi Fine Art (“Downstate”) in January 2016.
“I lived in Carterville for nearly ten years (1969 – 1978), but didn’t start photographing it until the mid-70s. I’d begun to consider it home by then, but still viewed it as a passing phase. A turning point.”
City of Carterville office window
Three cheerleaders
Boy with leather jacket in staircase
Two girls with matching t-shirts
Couple with Chevelle
Couple at locker
Girl on stairs
Boy in front of locker with hand in pocket
Girl at pommel horse
Square dance couple posing
Man and woman dancing
Guy goosing girl with drunk husband
Two women dancing
Two cool cats
So. Ill. Barn with deer
Girls on beach with baseball mitts
Girls on beach blankets
Brother and sister neighbors
Man working in cemetery
Boy with foldout
