Joe Reynolds is a photographer, teacher, and writer based in Lawrenceburg, TN. His work relies on the slow process of the large format camera to build relationships with the land and people he photographs. His pictures describe bonds formed from shared experience, bonds that weave us more deeply into each other than labels of nation, creed, race, or gender. Since 2008 he has been photographing his evolving relationship with the small crystal-mining town of Cristalândia, Brazil. As a dual Brazilian/American citizen, he explores his growing sense of belonging within a community with which, at first, he shared nothing beyond Brazilian citizenship.

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