Street Photography nominee

As industries have moved over seas and farms have left families, much of the American Southeast has seen a major change in parts of their cities, and many times entire towns. Growing up in the southeast and seeing the later stages of this, I have become enamored with the remnants of this past and the present visual reminders that it has produced. Walking through small towns, and sometimes large cities, there is the constant reminder of the flight from certain areas in buildings left empty from an inability to sustain. Some of these businesses are corporations that followed the "progress", and some are the locally owned places trying to stay open, if they haven't closed already. What is left in the wake of change are communities trying to stay viable and a visual landscape that is a reminder of a past that still effects the present.

Currently residing in North Augusta, SC, Peter Stitt is a photographer who has been exhibited nationally and internationally, from Portland, OR, to Venice, Italy. A graduate of Northeastern University, he has studied and honed his craft through teaching, commercial assisting, and gallery management.

Working currently as a full-time artist, Stitt produces images that reflect on the social landscape and how it shapes our experiences, past and present. With influences from street photography and the New Topographics movement, his photography speaks to a sense of place, time, and familiarity with everyday environments and the landscapes they create.