​It's just a shame that in the pre-digital era of photography, taking pictures was quite an expensive thing, so one had to be more frugal than now with taking snaps. I dream of getting a chance to do over all those trips I made in those pre-digital times, throughout the US, and not in the least through what is commonly called the Deep South. This is indeed a fascinating corner of the country, with a very specific identity in and around character cities like Charleston in South Carolina, Savannah in Georgia, Montgomery in Alabama and New Orleans in Louisiana. This South-East corner of the US has significantly helped determine what the country is today, with poles of growth such as Miami and Houston in Florida and Texas, but also with the visible testimonies of the most tragic episodes in America's becoming and completion, from the Revolutionary War against Britain to the 'Trail of Tears' of Native Americans in Oklahoma, squeezed by pioneers and Land Runs; from the Civil War which divided the Nation over the slavery issue and ravaged it on both sides to, a century later, the civil rights movement of a certain preacher in Atlanta called Martin Luther King. And, of course, on a lighter note there is also Disney in Orlando, there is the festive attraction of the Florida Keys and the Gulf of Mexico beaches and there is the legacy of French 'beignets', Dixie music and Mississippi riverboats in New Orleans, in addition to the magnificent gardens of magnolias and azaleas surrounding elegant antebellum mansions on the grounds of yesteryear plantations of sugar and cotton. A whole lot of variety, spread out over eight different States.

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* Scanned Slides, 1988-1990