Robert
Dickes

The Deer Hunter

I grew up in American suburban society where family cookouts and kids playing in the streets was the norm. When I married a girl from backwoods Kentucky, I was introduced to new family traditions. I learned how to cook a pig, play corn hole and hunt the great white-tailed deer.

The first couple of years learning how to hunt was interesting to say the least. I was often treated as the outsider that was being introduced to something straight out of a movie. With my third year came my first kill and my status of outside changed overnight.

I decided to start documenting this special time of that happens only once a year a few years ago. Since then it has become my goal to share the uniqueness of this annual event of male pride and bonding.