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Backroads is a coffee table art book project based on preserving the sights of places in the Old South found off the main highways — places with a sense of being left behind in the rush to progress. We now live in a world where every rest stop off the Interstate looks and feels the same. Every fast food chain offers the same food in the same looking stores. Steven Stiefel sets out with his camera to capture the ghosts of the southern byways.
A small barn in a field. © Steven Stiefel. All Rights Reserved.
A two-lane highway on Sand Mountain. © Steven Stiefel. All Rights Reserved.
A junkyard in Trenton, Georgia. © Steven Stiefel. All Rights Reserved.
These See Rock City barns are all along the Alabama/Tennessee/Georgia area. © Steven Stiefel. All Rights Reserved.
A stray dog walks in front of an abandoned antique store. © Steven Stiefel. All Rights Reserved.
A lonely sign stands guard at a railroad crossing in rural North Alabama. © Steven Stiefel. All Rights Reserved.
Modern society encroaches upon a rural home as this power plant in Cartersville, Georgia. © Steven Stiefel. All Rights Reserved.
If you travel the backroads you'll find lots of old churches. This sign sits on private property, urging fellow members of the community to get right with the Lord before the Rapture. © Steven Stiefel. All Rights Reserved.
The railways were once the key to modern progress. Now they intersect many old Southern towns but most folks use the Interstates or soar across the skies to get from Point A to Point B. © Steven Stiefel. All Rights Reserved.
A bale of hay sits in a pasture in Northeast Alabama. © Steven Stiefel. All Rights Reserved.