A new addition to The Architecture of Slavery. Eleven printed photographs with letterpress text.

My current plantation series, Letterpress on Hahnemühle, or cotton rag.

“Photography has long been used to narrate the story of antebellum slavery, but Salmon’s work moves beyond illustration, offering dreamlike images that conjure the ineffable feelings of life in the South”

— Seth Feman, Curator of Photography and Deputy Director, The Chrysler Museum of Art.

The first of my Plantation Series, this body of work focuses on Wessyngton Plantation, for generations the property of my husband’s ancestors and their descendants.

This photo-collage series documents West-Indian migration to the United States through the experience of one family - mine. The works are made from archival photos and documents, gouache, paper and digital camera. Each palm serves as a reliquary of a collective memory.

Sticking with the concept of architecture, I’ve lately been working with the medium of blueprint, or cyanotype, using the historical photographic process in a contemporary framework.

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