Photographer Carol M. Highsmith (b. 1946, North Carolina, USA) is an artist and historian of the highest order, and is one of the most prolific and dedicated photographic documentarians of America in the nation’s history. Highsmith has photographed work in all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and has amassed a herculean portfolio that nears 100,000 photos, all of which she gifts to the Library of Congress. It is rare for that entity to create a one-person archive for a single artist’s work, but the Library of Congress has one for hers. Since 2010, she has dedicated herself to visiting and re-photographing at least eight states per year in order to keep her depictions of said states as current as possible within the context of her holistic body of work.