Brian Brown (Dirt Road Cowboy)'s photostream  

Buy my book, Vanishing Irwin County, at this link:
www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/2390661

Check out this photo essay and nice write up at Daily Yonder...it should give you an idea of the current direction of my photography: www.dailyyonder.com/tar-paper-shacks-and-other-wonders/20...

OR georgiacoast.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/us-17-coastal-highw...

OR this one at Brown's Guide to Georgia: www.brownsguides.com/v/brian-browns-vanishing-georgia/

My biggest cause at the moment: www.wiregrassenergynetwork.com/
I'm fighting, with many others, the proposed construction of a coal-fired power plant near the Ocmulgee River in my home county of Ben Hill.
UPDATE! The coal plant was cancelled, thanks to grass roots opposition and education. Yay!

"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." Diderot

"I am one man, one mind, one pair of eyes trying to distinguish what is significant to an entire community...I rearrange the sacred furniture, because my brain, not my camera, is my instrument, beauty is not enough." Paul Kwilecki

As a historian (B.A., Georgia College, '91), I have an abnormal love for nostalgia and the abandoned and neglected. I've been a fan of Eudora Welty and William Christenberry as long as I can remember, as well as the FSA/OWI Photographers [Lange, Evans, Mydans, Vachon, Delano, Parks, Wolcott, et al]. Much of my time is consumed with my website, Vanishing South Georgia, which has been a wonderful opportunity and at the same time provided excellent exposure. I am encouraged that so many people have an interest in the vernacular architecture of my native region.

Recent and forthcoming commercial and editorial credits include South Georgia College, Red Booth Review, Golden Isles Magazine, CBS Television, Brown's Guide to Georgia, W. W. Norton, Imaginative Journeys History Workshops, Bryan County GA Government, Georgia Backroads Magazine, Red Line Blues, The Honorable Jeffery P. Hopkins, South Georgia College, Flycatcher: A Journal of Native Imagination, Golden Isles Arts & Humanities Association, The Ottawa Citizen, Reluctant Saints, The Bainbridge Post-Searchlight, The University System of Georgia-GALILEO, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Dancing Moon Press, Fellowship Memphis, Golden Isles Magazine, Clementine, Subliminal Interiors, Tulane Review, Daily Yonder, and Like the Dew, among others.

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I'm not on Flickr much these days, as my other photographic work and website production keeps me too busy. I'm working with a Savannah filmmaker on a documentary about VANISHING SOUTH GEORGIA and my preservation of old structures through photography, as well as working on three different commercial book projects and three self-published projects. I'm also in the garden much of the summer, or kayaking when there's enough water. I appreciate all the kind comments and support from my fellow Flickr members over the years; without you I wouldn't be where I am today!

SAVE THE GOPHER FROG!

Check out and feel free to join any of my flickr groups:
flickr.com/groups/vanishingsouth
www.flickr.com/groups/documentarysouth/
flickr.com/groups/historicsouthernbarns
flickr.com/groups/oldsoutharchitecture
www.flickr.com/groups/southernsigns
www.flickr.com/groups/courthousesquare

Unfortunately, I don't have the time to personally moderate every single submission to my Flickr groups these days, as was the case in the past, but I still try to keep them as best as possible. I may be soon passing some off to others for administrative duties...anyone who is interested please email me. Thanks!

To learn more, please visit www.brianbrown.wordpress.com