For Beverly Collins-Roberts, storytelling has always driven her passion for photography, leading her to projects that, while personally fulfilling, have also brought her undeniable pain. But she will be quick to tell you that documenting stories that have been erased for centuries has to be done – no matter how painful.
While photographing Camden’s Pomona Hall in 2002, Beverly discovered a fact that had been kept under wraps for a century: Pomona Hall had been a slave plantation.
