Robert A. Schaefer Jr.’s Portraits of an Alabama Farm focuses on Joe Culpepper, his high school friend and a Cullman County cattle farmer. Schaefer describes the project as a unique documentary rather than an elegy or a cause, seeking to create a visual document of a life found in pieces. The work tells its story through light, which, encroached upon by other lights, is fading. The project presents farming life through a personal documentary perspective centered on one Alabama farmer.