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Paige Green is a documentary and portrait photographer, whose storytelling approach to photography frequently addresses issues involving agriculture, land use, and food. Her work is featured in nine books and has been published in Glamour, National Geographic Traveler, New York Times Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, GQ, Country Living, House Beautiful, and Culture. Paige lives in Petaluma, CA with a house full of boys.

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  • shopping ‘R’ us

    Welcome to strip malls and chain stores. Welcome to anywhere USA. But what are families supposed to do, when there aren’t many other options, and time and money are not disposable? For young working families, it has to be cheap, fast and convenient. This is life for millions of Americans…. Susie learns about helium, as…

  • turning 3

    The biggest challenge of them all….photographing a 3 yr old’s birthday party with a camera made in the 50’s…..I looked cool doing it, but my photos are hit or miss….these are some of my favorites. The photo actually includes Darren’s feet but the place where I have the negs scanned goofed on a few of…

  • Asking for directions….

    …can lead to some amazing experiences. I was on the way to Lake Keowee, to visit Ann and her family and I wasn’t exactly sure I was going the right way, when I saw this man, Homer Price, on the side of the road with his spray can full of herbicides…. I pulled around and…

  • best friends and babies

    Being back in the South, where I grew up, means visiting friends from my childhood… and their children. So I am also using them as models for my look into the American way of life for middle class families. Ann and Susie are my favorite models… and we go everywhere together. It is good practice…

  • Waffle House in Lancaster

    I started my Waffle House Tour 2007 in Lancaster, PA. For those who don’t know, I believe the Waffle House is a place to find community in our chain restaurant reality. Because community is my motivating force, one of my projects I have been wanting to do for many years is to document community within…

  • Amish Hunting

    After two weeks in Philadelphia, I was ready for some country….and not just any country, Amish country. So we researched the Amish on what else but wikipedia…..some facts we didn’t know were that the Amish are not allowed to wear buttons or receive education past the 8th grade, so they just repeat 8th grade until…

  • the summer begins

    Ok….so all the papers are finished and I have left London and am gearing up to start my photo-intensive summer. My first stop was Philadelphia, well after NY it was Philly, then back to NY, then back to Philly and now I am in Greenville, SC, well Reidville, SC….but that is hard for me to…

  • 486 Bomb Group

    Perfect timing….my family decides to come over in the middle of the end of term two. So all the papers and projects that are due have to be put on hold as we go to Sudbury, England for my Grandfather’s WWII reunion for the 486th Bomb Group. No stress. Because many of the men are…

  • avedon

    (click image to enlarge) For the visual style assessment Matteo Borzone and I chose Richard Avedon and particularly his work from In the American West. “I’ve worked out of a series of no’s. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no’s force me…

  • Three Mills and the Olympics

    The mooring at Three Mills has historically been the home for 20 canal boats and 31 canal boat living people. Until a few months ago when the British Waterways announced that everyone would have to leave for 18 months while the canal undergoes improvements made to transport construction materials for the Olympics. Now the mooring…