DELTA DREAM EXPRESS
Photographs by D. L. Anderson
On display October 19 – November 13, 2007

What is progress and what does it mean for the Mississippi Delta? "Delta Dream Express," more than 20 color photographs by Independent Weekly photographer D. L. Anderson, addresses these questions through the stories of individuals and their lives in the Delta. Anderson’s camera explores hip-hop hopefuls and bygone blues makers. Bedroom rehearsals to back road jukes. Fields of white gold to a mighty casino boom. Country churches with plenty of room, broken pianos and one talented tuner. Strong women. Hard times. Babies raising babies. Returning to your roots. Tourism. Poverty. Progress. Abandonment. This photographic journey passes through the struggles and fantasies, hardships and dreams of the Mississippi Delta today. "Delta Dream Express" strives to examine the modern-day cultural landscape in a colorful, unique and fertile American region with a difficult past and uncertain future