Daniel Humphries-Russ: Featured Galleries and Collections

American Bounty

(Daniel Humphries-Russ) — Thu, 01 May 2025 02:56:30 GMT

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Howard County, Maryland is the third richest county in the United States with a median household income of $108,844 (Sawe, 2016). We are at the heart of the most educated, highest income Combined Statistical Area in the U.S (The Brookings Institution, 2016). The Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area has six of the top ten highest income counties in America (United States Census Bureau, 2013).

For all this prosperity, one in every eight households in Maryland has gone hungry in a recent year (Kelvey, 2014).

In the face of such need, I chose to document the bounty that is available to the residents of my neighborhood. There are six supermarkets within a two-mile radius of my home. We live amid an embarrassment of choices; the shelves seemingly stretch endlessly with plenty—fruits, vegetables, meats, cakes, pastries, candy, soda, frozen foods and much more.

American Temples

(Daniel Humphries-Russ) — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Feed the body, not the soul.

American Temples: late-night fast food in America. The prints from this collection combine my passions for architectural photography and night photography with the necessity of eating out, dictated by a hectic schedule. Shot by available light, I confront my subjects head-on. Shot up close, with very short lenses, the journalistic style captures the glaring light of stark reality. The restaurants share so much in common: red neon, sharp angles, and glowing interiors. The red neon evokes strong emotions of love, warmth and comfort. Red stimulates the mind and body, increasing heart rate, respiration and appetite. Their gleaming tile and plastic surfaces hint at what some call plastic food, served up with plastic toys. They are highly processed environments for consuming highly processed food. The buildings resemble places of worship—the mission style of Popeye’s and Taco Bell, the Mayan style roofs of McDonald’s and Pizza Hut, and the flying buttresses of McDonald’s “Golden Arches”. What is the sacrifice on the altars of these American fast food temples?

Architecture

(Daniel Humphries-Russ) — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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Bridges of Antietam Creek

(Daniel Humphries-Russ) — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>There are seventeen surviving 19th century stone arch bridges on Antietam Creek in Washington County, Maryland. Built between 1823 and 1875 to carry horses and wagons, most of these bridges are still in use in the 21st century. The pastoral setting of some of these bridges belies the history these bridges have seen. With all but two of these bridges built before the American Civil War, Union and Confederate soldiers crossed and re-crossed these bridges to maneuver against each other. Burnside's Bridge, on the Antietam National Battlefield, played a key role in the September 1862 Battle of Antietam when fewer than 500 Georgians held back Major General Burnside’s army of 12,000 men. With the Confederate’s withdrawal from Antietam, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862.

Centennial Churches

(Daniel Humphries-Russ) — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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Centennial Churches celebrates the Living Legacy of the churches of the Baltimore–Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church that are 100+ years old.

Maryland was the birthplace of Methodism in America. Robert Strawbridge, the first local preacher, grew an ever-widening circuit of meetings and classes beginning
about 1760 in Carroll County, Maryland. Strawbridge administered the sacraments at the first conference held in America in 1773. The 1784 Christmas Conference in
Baltimore officially organized the Methodist Episcopal Church in America with Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke as the leaders.

Centennial churches have a substantial portion of their 100+ year old church in service to their congregation today. Some churches have sanctuaries built subsequent to
their original meeting place; some churches have had major renovations but have maintained the essential character of their original church; some churches have more
than one of their historical meeting places in use today. These churches represent all of the historical branches of United Methodism. This project is a celebration of
these congregations, their heritage and their meeting places.

Churches are listed by their original names and identified individually as United Methodist Churches. Churches are listed in chronological order.