A version of this story ran in the December 2018 issue. Photographer Keith Carter has spent his life revealing the magical in the mundane. Born in 1948 in Madison, Wisconsin, Carter moved with his ...

Editors’ note: As we approach our fiftieth anniversary, in February 2023, we will, every week, highlight an important story from our past and offer some perspective on it. East Texas and its residents ...

The Big Thicket National Preserve is one of the wildest and least accessible parts of Texas. Sprawling across more than 113,000 acres of East Texas, the mossy and mysterious expanse encompasses swamps ...

Keith Carter began to take his own pictures after he happened upon one of his mother's color prints when he was 19. His mother made her living as a studio photographer in Beaumont, Texas, and the ...

For many, a classic American landscape evokes images of the sprawling vistas of a John Ford western or Ansel Adams’ monumental black and white mountains. Keith Carter’s landscapes are far more ...

Photographer Keith Carter has lived in East Texas for most of his life, and the work that first gained him notice largely comprised portraits and documentary-style explorations of small, crossroads ...

Keith Carter is an American photographer known for his ghostly images of animals, still lifes, portraits, and figures in landscapes. Using black-and-white photography and varied focuses, he creates a ...