Lucy Piper Photography

Badges in Lynchburg, TN. Small Town America part II.

Mimi’s department store, Tullahoma, TN. Small Town America part II.

Thanksgiving. Tullahoma, TN.

Me. Downtown Lynchburg, TN. 

Small Town America is a documentary photography project set in Tennessee, incorporating a mixture of landscapes, portraits and church signs from the heart of the Bible Belt, where I have spent some time over the past two years. To quote writer Paul Theroux, who has just written a book on the South: "The small towns of the Deep South say something about America that the big cities don't. The towns show you how they've often been abandoned by their own governments, how they have been left behind by education and politics. It's in the small towns you see the effects of poverty and the outsourcing of US manufacturing. Look at the smaller towns and you see the real America.' 

Images taken from several visits to Tennessee over the past two years, exploring the people & landscapes in the heart of the Bible Belt. 

Back in April this year, the boat pictured transferred 140 migrants & refugees to safety in Crete & onwards to mainland Greece, having arrived at Gavdos, a small island 4 hours south of Paleochora.

Last light. Paleochora, Crete. 

Hitching a ride. Crete. 2015.

Paleochora. Crete. 2015.

Waiting to fly home. Chania Airport, Crete.

Susan & Christopher, Budleigh Salterton. From my ongoing series on beach hutters along the East Devon coast, in attempt to document the current hut owners before the possibility of East Devon Council selling the huts off for 5 year leases at auction to the highest bidder. NB - the bird on the table is to discourage seagulls (!)

Paleochora, Crete, 2014. Thought I better post some from last year before I post this years. 

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A pleasure as always to photograph another wedding, this time in the Cotswolds for my good friend Kim who I met at University. Congratulations to her & Frits. 

Just found out that one of my pictures of American blues musician Steve James is displayed on a 50 foot canvas at Centrum Blues Week in Port Townsend, Washington USA. Steve tells me the building is 75 ft tall, an old WWI hangar. Something to make me feel better when recovering from Glastonbury!

The lovely Cherisse Osei.  A massive inspiration to me as a female drummer. I was lucky enough to visit Cherisse in her studio in London very recently, where I also got to have a 3 hour drum lesson! She has just finished playing with Bryan Ferry, and is now playing the drums with Paloma Faith.