The Last F/

original photos shot in the dirty south.

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With people in movies I seem to share the services of the machina telephonica and its sudden god. - VN

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When I get depressed, I take a little pill, and I cheer up again. - KV

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Today I am releasing my first photobook into the wild. A collection of photos taken during my explorations of the Old Atlanta Prison Farm. Thank you for the support. The Prison Farm Edition of 15 http://dbyassmith.bigcartel.com/product/the-prison-farm

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For both of us, it had simply been too enormous an experience. We shared it by not talking about it. - HM

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Sounds like a boring life. I hope it lasts forever. - DD

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Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge. - HM

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...bald eagles soared the days like gods, even if they scavenged the mornings like rats - MD

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We passed silently by, feeling curiously reverent, even uplifted by the sight oh the heaped cars and fallen people. - DD

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The surrounding space is so vast that it becomes increasingly difficult to keep a balanced grip on one’s own being. I wonder if I am making myself clear. The mind swells out to fill the entire landscape, becoming so diffuse in the process that one loses the ability to keep it fastened to the physical self. -HM

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As his mother said, “ The Pilgrims are coming up in the world.” - KV

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Of course not knowing hardly prevents the approaching chaos. - MD

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What started as a careful, inquisitive, getting-to-know-you search began to derail itself, barreling out of control into something hot and aggressive -- a violent hunt for my own reference material. - SH 

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Everything was on television last night. - DD

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The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as absurd and not worth thinking about. - HM

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Of course not knowing hardly prevents the approaching chaos. - MD

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The truth is, stillness is an idea, a dream. It’s the thought of friendly, welcoming lights still shining in all the places we’ve been forced to abandon. - SH

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It occurred to me that I did not have to knock. The door would be open. - DD