We Are Nashville

…designed to foster understanding of who we are, inspire conversations that help us get to know one other, and take simple but meaningful actions that preserve the special character of our city.

We wanted to know who we are as a city: Nashville. And this unprecedented work of photojournalism is how we chose to do it. It started like this:
A prominent businessman and philanthropist called and asked for a meeting. No topic, just a meeting. Intrigued, I said yes. We climbed the back stairs to a back room of a nondescript office building in Nashville. Doors closed. Handwritten notes came out (which I later discovered is his habit).

He said,

"I’d like to do something for this city that’s never been done."