about the photographers...
N. CAMP BEST - student, artist, writer, administrator, father, partner, friend, dreamer.... soul-searching.... soul-searching,
truth-seeking, avant-garde-loving, bohemian aging hippie.
ERIC FELDMAN - Recieved his BFA from NYU Film School. He is currently working on a documentary entitled, "OZY:
PORTRAIT OF A RECORD DEALER", about the obsessive-compulsive world or record collecting.
JOHN RORY FRASER - from Nashville, TN. Educated at Sewanee. His company, Glenalmond, makes oral history
documentaries for families and individuals.
All are first-year graduate students in Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi, which operates under the aegis
of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
The project on this page is the result of a semester-long course in documentary photography, taught by Dr. David Wharton.
Assigned to the small town of Pontotoc, MS, we attempted to document something of the life of the town and its surrounding
area.