My name is Regmar, and I live near New Orleans. In the 1990s I got a 35mm film camera, and I began to take photos – first during a vacation, and later shooting whatever I could find.
In 2000 I realized that the Louisiana of my youth was slipping away, lost to rising seas and shopping malls. The sepea images of my childhood – of railroads and Esso stations, sugarcane fields and shacks on the bayous – were disappearing. I decided to move back to Louisiana and try to capture as much of it as I could before it is gone forever.
My photography is a labor of love, and I make my art for no reason other than it fulfills me. I am 61 years old as of this writing, and I have a wife and two young daughters, both of whom are better people than I am. We all love to read, and travel, and we love our two cats.