This series is an exploration of the North Carolina piedmont, a region of the state that sits between the mountains and the coast. The portraits, still lives and landscapes that make up this series were made in over 20 North Carolina counties. This series is a documentation of the changing North Carolina piedmont region and people with an emphasis on creating a fictional plateau where, as North Carolina novelist Thomas Wolfe states in his novella “The Lost Boy”, “all things came and passed, and yet abode forever and would never change.” Plateau is the story of locating lost innocence and finding global meaning in local places.

All images ©Aaron Canipe