Waveland, Mississippi, 8 AM, August 29, 2006

Welcome to the virtual home of an itinerant photographer. Here you will find pictures of open country, rural houses, urban neighborhoods, and Main Streets.

Since Hurricane Katrina, my pictures have come from the ravaged Gulf Coast.

Over my first fifty years, I've watched the disappearance of traditional towns, architectural beauty, and open lands from America. It is the Long Hurricane of suburban sprawl. My distress about this led me to the New Urbanism planning movement, which protects and creates good places all along the rural-to-urban transect. I'm using photography to report, but also to rebuild.

Links to Sandy’s books:
Fifty Houses
Imagining Antarctica


contact: sandysorlien@comcast.net


Center for Applied Transect Studies


All photographs ©2006 Sandy Sorlien.