"I think living here has allowed the relationships and pictures to develop in an organic way. It's not like I've got two weeks to do this. It feels more natural and more like something I should be doing rather than photographing some far off place. I've been photographing the same area for almost twenty years -- people know who I am and what I'm up to. Still, I'm an alien of sorts, coming into a world in which I am an outsider" -- Birney Imes.