Thoughts and Works in Progress

Easy Money Church of God in Christ, Money, MS

After Emmett Till’s body was found, local law enforcement was anxious to bury the body and, they hoped, the story. Within hours of the body’s retrieval, a grave was dug here

Oklahoma City Memorial

Binhammer Photographs, Roadside America Photo Series, Scarred Places Photo Series

Domestic terrorism and militias have always been around....question is how much breath do they get and/or do we give them. What is: The Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial, perfectly manicured lawn, gently lit "chairs"- one for each of the 168…

Soulsville USA, Stax, Memphis, Tennessee

Binhammer Photographs, Music History Photo Stories, Photoblog, Scarred Places Photo Series

Stax Studios in Memphis, Soulsville USA

The Blues, WC Handy and an Abandoned Train Station

Binhammer Photographs, Music History Photo Stories, Photoblog

Tutwiler, Mississippi, where WC Handy uncovered the blues

Dr T.R.M Howard’s Home, Mound Bayou, Mississippi

Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Scarred Places Photo Series

What is: a vacant lot, where Dr. TRM Howard lived, Mound Bayou, Mississippi. What was: Mound Bayou is 42 miles away from Sumner, MS where the Emmett Till trial occurred. However, it is an essential place in civil rights history for numerous…

Po Monkey Juke Joint, Mississippi

Binhammer Photographs, Music History Photo Stories, Photoblog, Roadside America Photo Series, Scarred Places Photo Series

Po’ Monkey’s was founded by Willie Seaberry in 1963, and was one of the last rural juke joints in the Mississippi Delta, wedged between a cotton field and a gravel road just over a mile west of Merigold, Mississippi.