Backyards & Beyond: Mississippians and Their Stories by H.C. Porter (2008) Hardcover

Backyards & Beyond: Mississippians and Their Stories by H.C. Porter (2008) Hardcover by H.C. Porter. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780981849904.

Mississippis premier social realist and cultural storyteller, H.C. Porter is known for her environmental paintings capturing everyday moments in the lives of Mississippians from the Delta to inner city neighborhoods. For nearly two decades, her narrative mixed media paintings have offered the world a contemporary Southern vision. In September 2005, just two weeks after Hurricane Katrina landed full force along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, the focus of her work shifted to telling the visual stories of those putting their lives back together in the coastal communities of her home state. For the next year, Porter captured black and white portraits that would serve as the basis of her paintings, while collaborator Karole Sessums recorded the voices of those being photographed. The pair covered 90 miles of Mississippi coastal communities devastated by Katrina. What Porter and Sessums found on the Mississippi Gulf Coast was larger and even more astounding than the hurricanes destruction. Am