Southern Ground — Kate Medley Photojournalist | Raleigh-Durham, NC

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Kate Medley Photojournalist | Raleigh-Durham, NC

Kate Medley Photojournalist | Raleigh-Durham, NC

Southern Ground

As a native of the South, my work has long centered on exploring this evolving region—its people, foodways, conflict, and culture.

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Eating is an Agricultural Act

Don’t miss essential New York Times reporting by Kate Kelly (and pics by me) on today’s front page, highlighting the North Carolina Republican-led abortion bill that Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed over the weekend amidst a rally of 2,000 people.

Exactly one year ago, North Carolina Rep. Tricia Cotham, a Democrat, tweeted: “Now, more than ever we need leaders who will be unwavering and unapologetic in their support of abortion rights. I’ll fight to codify Roe in the #ncga and cont

Back in North Carolina, Mama Dip’s, a beloved institution in Chapel Hill since 1976, is for sale. Loved photographing Spring Council and three of her siblings during lunch service.

The sale - with an asking price $3.6 million - will enable the

Bassie’s Service Station is located along the Mississippi River in Gunnison, Mississippi, “a small town with a bright future,” population 265. Billy Bassie had been running the service station for about 40 years, selling lunch meats

Reporting in from Elaine, Arkansas, a town along the Mississippi River with a population of about 500, perhaps most known as the site of the Elaine Massacre, where Black sharecroppers attempted to organize a farmers’ union in 1919. Local landow

Delighted to return to Betty’s Place in Indianola, a soul food restaurant housed in a former gas station. Proprietor Betty Campbell, “Ms. Betty,” cooked for B.B. King for 20 years, and now runs this restaurant around the corner from

A favorite bar in Oxford. Bonus: garden lettuce.

Kicking off a week of gas station fieldwork in Mississippi at the legendary 4 Corners Chevron in Oxford, where owner Rafiq Rupani is best known for his fried chicken-on-a-stick. His busiest hours are 10pm-2am, when he caps the line inside at 50 peopl

A few outtakes from this week’s New York Times shoot with Bob Crawford of The Avett Brothers at his home near Hillsborough, North Carolina. Crawford has a new podcast out today about the life of John Quincy Adams, and how he went from a failed

Happy publication day to Daniel Wallace, photographed recently for @salvationsouth, for the release of his new memoir, “This Isn’t Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew.” For those of you in the Triangle, come

Had a lot of fun making portraits of British actor and director Phelim McDermott for The New York Times last weekend (in print today). My pal @cornwhizzle brought some serious a-game to the collab. McDermott’s “Tao of Glass,” a coll

The Buckhorn—Lottie, Louisiana.
Gas + cafe + bar + daiquiri drive-thru.
17-year-old Destiny McCrory cooked lunch. Her sister comes in to cook dinner.
#gasstationfood

On the gas station food circuit in Louisiana this week. One of my first stops was The Original Brown Derby on Tulane Street in New Orleans. Known for their hot plate—breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The steam table hosts a dozen bays, food that th

Gas station tour continues this week in Alabama with Fred Eaton’s Full Service. At 88-years-old, Mr. Eaton offers one of the few remaining full-service stations in the South. (Cash-only to boot.) ”When people retire, they come sit around

On gas station tour in Florida all week. Opened up what I thought was a bait freezer at JR’s Aucilla River Store to instead find 13 gators frosted over. Owner Joel Baldree, shown here, killed them all this season. Soon they will hang in his gas

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