Freeman Vines, Hanging Tree Guitars, No. 2

• Prize
  Silver in Fine Art/People
• Photographer
  Timothy Duffy, United States
• Date of Photograph
  2015
• Studio
  Timothy Duffy Photography
• Socials
• Website
  https://www.timothyduffyphotography.com/

Freeman Vines is a 78 year old artist, luthier and spiritual philosopher whose works and writings confront lynching and the legacy of slavery. Vines is pictured with his guitars in a field near his home in Eastern North Carolina. The chemical irregularities present in the photograph enhance the mystical quality of both the artist and his sculptures.

• Biography
  Timothy Duffy is a renowned photographer and founder of the Music Maker Relief Foundation. Timothy has been recording and photographing traditional artists in the South since the age of 16, when he became interested in ethnomusicology. After earning a BA from Friends World College and MA from the Curriculum in Folklore at the UNC, Timothy and his wife Denise founded Music Maker Relief Foundation in 1994 to assist traditional musicians in need. Duffy’s photographs are in permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, National Museum of African American History and Culture among others.
• Awards
  Collections: The New Orleans Museum of Art Northwestern University University of Minnesota Morris Museum of Art Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture UNC Chapel Hill, Wilson Library