Jenny Ellerb: The Ancient Mounds Project
Through photographs — images, Jenny Ellerbe tells us the story of rural northeastern Louisiana and what it gives to those who live there season after season, generation after generation. Her goal is not just to document this area but to really crawl inside it and see what makes it unique.
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ABOUT Jenny Ellerbe
“Jenny Ellerbe is a self-taught photographer living in Monroe, Louisiana. After a twenty year career as a Pediatric Intensive Care nurse, and after returning to Louisiana from Connecticut.
Jenny Ellerbe put down the tools of her previous life, picked up a kayak paddle and a camera and started over. She rediscovered the wetlands of northeastern Louisiana and probed their depths with the reverence of a first time explorer.
For the past several years she has been developing a long-term study of rural northeastern Louisiana, the overlooked region that lies between the Mississippi and Ouachita Rivers.
She has wandered through the vast farmland and rural communities that rise from it collecting photographs, images that tell the story of the land and what it gives to those of who live there season after season, generation after generation.
Her goal is not just to document this area but to really crawl inside it and see what makes it unique. In black & white I am able to get closer to the bones of what she was photographing and discover images she never imagined existed. Those discoveries, along with the sheer joy she experiences through my camera, inspire her to continue.”
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