Our Living Past

For 35 years, photographer Timothy Duffy has immortalized Southern musical heroes and the world in which they live. These images were made with wet-plate collodion photography and printed with the platinum/palladium process.

Freeman Vines, Visionary Luthier, Wilson NC, 2015

Warren Store, Post Office, Prospect Hill, NC, 2014

Little Freddie King, Gutbucket Blues, McComb, MS, 2014

Eddie Tigner, Inkspot Band Leader, Atlanta, GA, 2016

Ironing Board Sam, R&B Music Television Pioneer, Hillsboro, NC. 2015

Pat Cohen, Bourbon Street Queen, New Orleans, LA 2015

Dr. Dixon, Bluesman, Atlanta, GA, 2014

Cool John Ferguson & Captain Luke, Guitar Heaven, Hillsboro, NC, 2014

John Dee Holeman, Piedmont Bluesman, Hillsboro, NC, 2015

Ardie Dean, Blues Drummer Extraordinaire, Huntsville AL, 2015

Derek Trucks, Guitar Virtuoso – Jacksonville, FL 2015

Ironing Board Sam, R&B Music Television Pioneer, Hillsboro, NC, 2015

Kester Smith & Taj Mahal, Blues Maestro with His Drummer of 43 years, Wilmington, NC 2015

Warren Store, Plantation Store, Prospect Hill, NC

Captain Luke, Drink House Entertainer Winston Salem, NC, 2014

Algia Mae Hinton, Farm Laborer, Songwriter, Singer, Guitarist & Buck Dancer, Middlesex, NC. 2015

Tim Duffy, Music Maker Founder, Hillsboro, NC, 2014

Joe Seamons, Dom Flemons & Benjamin Hunter, American Roots Musicians, Durham, NC, 2014

Sharon Jones, Soul Singer, Augusta, Georgia, 2015

Cootie Stark’s Guitar, Greenville, SC, 2013

Lena Mae Perry, Gospel Singer, Newton Grove, NC, 2015

Alabama Slim, New Orleans, LA, 2015

Martha Spencer & Smokey, Appalachian Musician, Rugby, VA, 2015

Big Head Joe, Giant Banjo, Hillsboro, NC, 2015

Ardie Dean, Sam Frazier Jr., Ironing Board Sam, Deep Blues Musicians, Hillsboro, NC, 2015

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