Finding the Good is a powerful story of a 20th century slave who rose to the rank of mayor and the young man whose life he touched. Fred Montgomery, the son of sharecroppers in west Tennessee, began his life picking cotton. I wanted to capture the feel of that era as well as a subtle nod to strength and endurance. To achieve an authentic look of an old weathered book, I scanned in a weathered book I found on my grandparent’s farm which had been sitting in a barn for years (shown below). In Photoshop, I painstakingly removed the book’s original ink and replaced it with my own.
