Taxidermy Shop - Hattiesburg, Mississippi
These images are the result of yet another lesson from the road. After a couple days of shitty weather and countless miles of things I felt I’d already photographed, something had to give. Whatever I was doing outside wasn’t working.. So after a lot of frustration, the all too obvious choice was to then go inside? Why the hell didn’t I think of that 800 miles prior? On the road you have to stay optimistic that the thing you don’t know you’re looking for is going to come. No matter how positive you are though, sometimes it doesn’t. So the game plan needs to change. It took until Mississippi for me to switch gears, which quickly lead to this taxidermy shop. Probably not a target that would normally be on the radar, but it turned out to be a lot of fun. The two brothers who owned this place were happy to have me and more than gracious with their knowledge. And after thinking about my time there, I realized some of these images would make a nice addition to the “At Work” series I’ve been quietly shooting for a while now.
