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August 16, 2008 through Sponsored by Mary Lou and Andrew Abruzzese, The Pineville Tavern. While working on a photographic project in Havana, Cuba, Philadelphia-area photographer Susan S. Bank stumbled upon a group of tobacco farmers who had never been photographed before, who had been growing their own food, getting by without electricity and telephone, and living a life firmly anchored in family, neighbors, their animals, and love of the valley where they live. Using black and white film and a 35mm camera, Bank produced a deeply poetic body of work that depicts these ordinary people who live "campo adentro", or deep within the country. A L S O S E E
Image: Susan S. Bank, El Medico, 2002, toned gelatin silver print on paper,
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