Golf World hired us to illustrate a piece about Augusta, Georgia beyond the greens of Augusta National.

We spent the week photographing everyone from the mayor Deke Copenhaver to the patrons at the G&S barbershop. We got up high to do aerials of the river and we got down low to do wide-angle shots of the local symphony playing at First Baptist Church. We met homeowners who rent their houses to Masters patrons and Luanne Hildebrandt whose family has run the eponymous German deli there since 1879.

All in all we found Augusta to be a typical Southern town- struggling through the week, having a good time on Saturday night and back in church on Sunday. Attending a sermon at the historic Springfield Baptist church, the oldest independent African American church in the United States, was the most inspiring part of the journey and perhaps the most apt.

Read Christopher Solomon’s full story and see more of the images here.

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