Thursday, October 23, 2008

Architectural Hero...Gaston Callum

Photograph by Gastom Callum via Oxford American



In the mid 1990’s, Gaston Callum began photographing the forgotten plantation houses, farm houses and vernacular buildings of his native South. Realizing that time was quickly running out for these neglected properties he founded Southland Historic Preservation with the goal to document and stabilize these historic buildings. After stabilization, the properties are sold with historic covenants to ensure that buyers do a sympathetic restoration. Successes include properties in Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Materials from buildings that cannot be saved are sold in lots that include photos of the original installations.

Available properties are listed on the SHP website, some with videos documenting their rescue. Gaston continues to photograph buildings and is currently working on a book of endangered North Carolina architecture.


3 comments:

porter hovey said...

wow! these are just so beautiful. thank you so much for this magical introduction.

P.Gaye Tapp at Little Augury said...

Gaston Callum is on a mission. More people need to be made aware of his work. I would love to see his images published. la

Surfdog said...

http://www.ncmissingpersons.org/tag/gaston-callum-ii/