dave greer / visuals

through the floorboards

I was born, and have lived outside of Atlanta, Georgia my entire life. I have amorous summertime childhood memories of the lake, drinking Coca-Cola and eating Cracker Jacks; playing baseball, staying out all day til the sun sets just before 9 in the summer, all within the context of small downtown main streets, full service filling stations, big greek-revival homes, modest middle class homes, and large tracts of farmland. And while this might seem like a contrived, stereotypical American image, I've realized that these icons of the South mean something much larger to me than just imagery. These places were where my grandparents told me stories, where people found and lost love, where families spent thousands of hours together, and over time these memory-filled, forlorn structures have been left relinquished. For reasons I've sill yet to really understand, I've always felt an foggy inviting allure to these structures and started mustering the courage to enter them to photograph. These photographs are a document of the area I've come to know, love, and understand as home. This project was split; one half made in the spring of 2007 with a plastic medium format camera, and the other made in the fall with a large format 4x5.

Silver Gelatin Prints. 15"x15" & 11"x14"