| Born and raised in the Midwest, Mike Corbin is
the author and photographer of the Hub
City book Family Trees: The Peach Culture of the
Piedmont (1998). Corbin moved to Spartanburg
in 1976 after serving in the United States Coast Guard and attending the University of Cincinnati; since then he has taught art
and photography in the public schools for thirty-one years.
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Since beginning to document the Cash family peach farm in
1995, Mike Corbin has concentrated on photo-documentation. He has contributed
work to numerous publications and executed several commissions for corporate
collections of photography. His peach photographs were exhibited in the Rotunda
of the U.S. Capitol and at the University
of Mississippi's Center
for the Study of Southern Culture.
Recently retired from teaching full-time, he is
looking forward to illustrating a friend's new book and to begin working on yet
another photo-documentary of the people andland of and surrounding Spartanburg.
"When my wife and I moved to Spartanburg,
we really thought it would be just
for a year or two. Now, thirty years later -- we've raised our three boys here -- I guess we call it home. We like to travel, but I can't imagine leaving. It
just might be a lack of imagination."
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