About the Artist
In the fall of 1991, nearing the end of my twenties, I found myself functioning entirely from the left side of my brain, working international business as a 9 to 5'er in the nation's capitol. A night class in studio photography awoke my creative side and soon transported me from the business world into the darkroom. Over the next four years, I graduated from the Southeastern Center for the Arts, worked as a full-time assistant for two advertising photographers, and opened a small studio specializing in fashion and corporate work. A year later I began my second career of teaching photography, a passion I still pursue today. In the summer of 1999 a workshop in Penland, North Carolina, exposed me to the ideal printing method for my evolving niche of black and white photography: structures and landscapes from the 19th and early 20th century American South.
I now reside in Cabbagetown, an historic mill village in urban Atlanta, and continue my work
from a studio I share with two other photographer friends in nearby Oakhurst. Traveling the
back roads of the Southeast with a 1966 Polaroid Land Camera, I document the vanishing remains
of a region whose structures and landscapes are as peculiar and haunted as its history.
David Knox, June 2001
