In September 2024, I participated in the annual 76th Missouri Photo Workshop. Each year, the workshop is held in a new small town in Missouri where accepted photographers gather to tell stories of rural America. This year, the workshop was held in Kennett, Missouri. Although the workshop focused on cultivating a focused story, I had a chance to photograph Kennett outside of the story I was working on. Here is a glimpse at Kennett, MI.
An abandoned home on the outskirts of Kennett, MI.
Kennett's water tower.
A hunting stall at the Delta Fair.
A car parked in the parking lot of the local Super 8.
Big Bob smiles at his son, Little Bob, and his daughter-in-law, Audra. Bob has lived in Kennett is whole life, and has no plans on leaving.
Divan, a South African farmer, works at Brown Brothers’ Farm in Kennett, MI. Divan moved to the United States to work as a farmhand, where he helps harvest cotton. Divan dreams of working on his own farm one day, and spends his evenings with other farm hands, most of them also from South Africa.
Divan sits inside a cotton picker, where he spends majority of his time.
Graffiti marks the walls of an abandoned house in Kennett, MI.
A glimpse into another window of the same abandoned house in Kennett, MI.
Audra, a lifetime resident of Kennett, at the local Delta fair.