In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, photographer Forest McMullin set off on a personal journey to try to make sense of the results, traveling through remote corners of the Deep South. Using only a paper map as guide, McMullin spent weeks on the road in areas completely unknown to him as a northerner. His photographs frankly but sympathetically document people and locales, and they lead the viewer to draw more nuanced conclusions than McMullin himself anticipated. The photographs’ revelation of unexpected beauties and their profound sense of place represent McMullin’s personal, empathic record of a region and its identity.