ALLEGED RIVER | THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

Photographs of my ongoing personal project on the Flint’s headwaters was published this month in The Bitter Southerner . Hannah Palmer wrote the text. She is a smart, creative writer who also happens to be the coordinator at Finding the Flint, a project created by American Rivers, The Conservation Fund, and the Atlanta Regional Commission to revitalize the area around the Atlanta airport and to bring awareness to the conditions of the headwaters of the Flint. Hannah wrote about what defines a river and the importance of a river in our collective experience.

“If you’ve visited the world’s busiest airport, as 36 million people did last year, you have almost certainly taxied over it, driven past it, browsed a duty-free shop in the terminal built on top of it. Laced beneath the 4,700-acre airport are miles of channels, house-sized box culverts, concrete pipes, and storm drains that contain the headwaters of the Flint River, Georgia’s second-longest river.”

Check out the story and to learn more about my visual project, Lost in Sight, about the Flint’s headwaters, head out to this link and leave me a comment.