Salt Eaters, named in part to honor the brilliant writer Toni Cade Bambara, claims salt as the vehicle – the metaphor – to move with and through  stories of Black life at the turn of the 20th century.

The work in Salt Eaters uses portraiture to document the sometimes difficult, sometimes beautiful, always powerful stories of Black life. Salt is necessary, it can conjure bitterness and sweetness on the tongue, being salty can propel you forward into action or, like Lot’s wife, it can ossify and break you.