Newnan, Georgia

When Kayla’s first child was born, in 2013, she wanted a professional portrait made of the baby. But the photographer she called was charging $375, beyond what she…

Gospel music was filling the air in the largest black church in Coweta County when I first saw Rufus. I was with a friend who’d invited me to…

One evening in early spring I was driving around the eastern edge of Newnan, where the road dips and turns away from the big-box stores and housing developments,…

I met Coleman at a dinner at his parents’ home, on my first “exploratory visit” to Newnan. Though we’d had many conversations by phone and email, it was…

I first see D.J. along the route of the Veterans’ Day parade, in Newnan, Georgia. He’s sitting in a plastic folding chair patterned with the American flag, next…

The roots of Jane’s family were set down in Georgia just after the Revolutionary War, when a multiple-great-grandfather, who’d fought for the Colonies, was given a parcel of…

It’s a bright fall morning in Courthouse Square, and I’m looking for a place to sit down. Farmers from around Newnan, Georgia, have set up tables – displaying…

MacDonald learned many things at cotillion, a Southern tradition of six months of etiquette classes, begun in Newnan during fifth grade. Along with the other 11-year-olds, he learned…

On the day that I met Wiley I was with three women from a well-to-do Baptist church in the center of Newnan. They belong to a group that…

While working in Georgia, I am trying to consider the long threads of history: how they come together to weave the present moment, tethering the present to the…

Just east of Newnan’s Courthouse Square lies a parcel of land, wide open except for slim oak trees scattered on a hillside. The land is bordered by a…

The first time I began photographing in Newnan, Georgia, I was taken to the local high school’s homecoming football game. I’d been invited to Newnan by the head…