Southern streets

The small-town streets of South Carolina and Georgia, photographed by Peter Stitt:

Now available in a new book titled, A Southern Verse, Stitt's photographs explore modern-day life in the rural South, a part of the United States that he feels hasn't changed in recent decades. "It became clear that the towns I was visiting were seemingly no different from those we travelled through growing up," Stitt says of the series. "Instead, these places seemed stuck in a time loop where as much as they changed, they very much stayed the same. There was something beautiful about it, though. There is a seemingly stoic sense of both a desire to progress and a stubborn hesitancy to change."