{"id":9122,"date":"2024-12-20T18:26:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T23:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=9122"},"modified":"2024-12-20T18:27:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T23:27:27","slug":"southampton-county-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/southampton-county-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton County, Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"825\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/missinghouse_2500px-1100x825.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/missinghouse_2500px-1100x825.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/missinghouse_2500px-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/missinghouse_2500px-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/missinghouse_2500px-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/missinghouse_2500px-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/missinghouse_2500px-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Southampton County, Virginia, 2024 \u2013 \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no Nat Turner memorial in Southampton County. No museum or documentation center. There are only fragments of buildings, and Turner&#8217;s sword remains under lock and key in the county courthouse. Primarily, there is the landscape, largely frozen in time, as memorial in itself. How do you photograph that which is missing? How do you fill in the gaps in the story? In the picture above, somewhere along the trail of Turner&#8217;s path of righteous destruction, a grove of mature trees marks the location where a farmhouse once stood. Sometimes absence and presence blend into one another, and the past and present conjoin and occupy the same ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no Nat Turner memorial in Southampton County. No museum or documentation center. There are only fragments of buildings, and Turner&#8217;s sword remains under lock and key in the county courthouse. Primarily, there is the landscape, largely frozen in time, as memorial in itself. How do you photograph that which is missing? How do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9124,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9122\/revisions\/9124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}