Paddling Caddo Lake with Texas Photographer Keith Carter
Texas Country Reporter tags along with the photographer whose latest book highlights the Gothic beauty of Southern swamps.
Caddo Lake State Park is home to towering cypresses and dangling Spanish moss—just the type of moody swamp celebrated in Ghostlight, Keith Carter’s latest photography book. In the latest dispatch from Texas Country Reporter, Carter explores the park from his canoe, camera in hand, reflecting on the allure of the Southern spaces he calls “otherworldly.”
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