Nicholas Widener uses photo-genealogy to excavate his family roots. Combining archival letters, old family photographs and objects with his own portraits and landscapes, he tells the story of his ancestral origins in the Black Belt region of Alabama. His brother Andrew Widener, a genealogist at the Daughters of the American Revolution, has researched the family for over a decade; riding with him to the Black Belt, the stories he gathered turned into images. Influenced by William Christenberry, Walker Evans, Sally Mann and William Eggleston, the book seeks to situate the photographer among the generations before and after him.