Roe Ethridge's best photograph: his car being pulled from a Florida canal
‘It’s like the opening shot in a film noir, but it was just stupid old me, embarrassing my family again’This was taken in Belle Glade, a small agrarian town in Florida where my parents were high-school sweethearts. It’s all sugar cane fields round there and they’re basically dissolving back into the earth, causing the town to fall apart. There’s no good news really: Belle Glade has been in decline since the 1980s, when it had the highest incidence of Aids per
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