One Place by Tom Rankin

Though artistic and ambitious Paul Kwilecki 19282009 chose to remain in Bainbridge Georgia the small Decatur County town where he was born raised and ran the familys hardware store. He had always been interested in photography and taught himself how to use a camera. Over four decades he documented life in his community making hundreds of masterful and intimate blackandwhite prints. Kwilecki developed his visual ideas in series of photographs of high school proms prison hog killings shadetree