Betty Press, Author at LENSCRATCH

©Alysia Burton Steele, Katie Richardson, of Tunica, lost three children in a tornado in 1955.

©Will Jacks, Po’ Monkey on a Cloudy night

I first met Will Jacks when I was in search of a gallery to show my Mississippi images.

©Jaime Erin Johnson, Mississippi Night

I met Jaime Johnson at the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) Annual Conference in New Orleans.

©Whitten Sabbatini

I met Whitten Sabbatini in 2011 at an exhibition opening of my African photographs at Mississippi State University where he was doing his BFA.

Don Norris is my coffee buddy in Hattiesburg, where we both live.

Maude Schuyler Clay was the first photographer who came to my mind for this project because she is so well known for her work.

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