across the street from Heaven (PRE-ORDER) Taylor Galloway Deadbeat Club
Available to pre-order - this title is due to ship in October
ESSAYS BY BRAD ZELLAR AND TAYLOR GALLOWAY 136 PAGES HARDCOVER FULL COLOR OFFSET 11.25” X 10.75” ISBN: 978-1-952523-38-0
Both testimony and elegy, across the street from Heaven is a consideration on time, memory, and belonging, on what fades away and on what remains: home and family.
For ten years, Taylor Galloway returned to the farm his grandmother’s family has tended for five generations in Hartwood, Virginia. Together, his photographs form a chorus of faces and voices whose lives have unfolded upon this land, bearing witness to a way of life on the brink of disappearance, as small independent farms across America continue to give way to industrial agriculture and development.
With respectful devotion, Galloway’s photographs attend to the land, the people, and the quiet rhythms of time. They speak of changing seasons, aging bodies, familiar rooms steeped in memory, of the grace found in shared moments, and of a renewed optimism as the next generation takes up the torch.
In photographing this place and its people, Galloway also traces his own roots. What began as an attempt to preserve the place that shaped his grandmother gradually became the discovery of a living community where he, too, belonged. In the end, across the street from Heaven is less about preserving the past than about discovering what still has the power to anchor us, and the certainty of having found one's way home.
