Fine Art Photographer and Mixed Media Artist Meryl Truett is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this documentary photography. From her project Vernacular Highway . To see Meryl’s portfolio click on any photograph.
Highway 46 Georgia
Highway 378 South Carolina
Highway 17 Florida
Highway 17 North Carolina
“Vernacular Highway” addresses the marginalization and evolving social terrain of American regional ideology. From urban transition to the disappearing rural individuality of the landscape, I seek to capture a personal vision of place. Barren scenery, decaying signage and vernacular architecture have become a symbolic part of the rural south’s visual identity. I photograph these and other indigenous images not to mock them, nor to reveal disdain for them, but rather to evoke a melancholic memory.
Highway 11 Tennessee
Highway 17 Virginia
Highway 17 Georgia
Hwy 17 South Carolina
See also:
Thump Queen and other Southern Anomalies, Relics and Ruins
By Meryl Truett
