Michael Duncan
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"Sardis" 18 x 22 Archival Pigment Print
"Sardis was a small village of country people nestled along a stream in the forest of the Kiamichi Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma. In the 1980s the government dammed the water and flooded the town for a lake, forcing both the living and the dead (the cemetery was moved) to leave. The lake has since become the subject of lawsuits brought by outsiders (including large cities in both Oklahoma and Texas) wrestling to claim the water. Today, all that remains of the valley forest and the little town are the stumps of pine and oak trees.”
My photographs are made to capture time and place. Once that is done, they are gone. I cannot return to the moment my images were taken. And the location never stays the same. But I have the image. And it will always be.”
Michael Duncan is a photographer who lives in Norman, Oklahoma.
"Sardis was a small village of country people nestled along a stream in the forest of the Kiamichi Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma. In the 1980s the government dammed the water and flooded the town for a lake, forcing both the living and the dead (the cemetery was moved) to leave. The lake has since become the subject of lawsuits brought by outsiders (including large cities in both Oklahoma and Texas) wrestling to claim the water. Today, all that remains of the valley forest and the little town are the stumps of pine and oak trees.”
My photographs are made to capture time and place. Once that is done, they are gone. I cannot return to the moment my images were taken. And the location never stays the same. But I have the image. And it will always be.”
Michael Duncan is a photographer who lives in Norman, Oklahoma.
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