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Spencer was born in Kosciusko and his first love was music, performing in rock bands making a recording. He is probably best know for his series, ''Native Soil'' that featured deep sepia tones combined with deep-South imagery. Spencer heavily manipulates his photographs in the darkroom. Spencer's ''Lost Boys'' series came about because of abuse he saw in Nashville where a young boy Pel Gai was murdered in a nightclub there. Pel Gai is from the Southern part of Sudan and about 150 refugees were sent to Nashville after reaching a refugee camp in Kenya . Spencer's work was also included in ''The South By Its Photographers'' with many other Southern Artists including Shelby Lee Adams , William Christenberry , and Melissa Springer . This exhibition was shown at the Birmingham Museum Of Art , Columbia Museum Of Art , and Louisiana Center For Arts And Sciences . The exhibit spurred the careers of these photographers and was also made into a book by Susan Sipple Elliott. Spencer's work was also chosen to be in ''Picturing the South'' curated by Ellen Fleurov . EXTERNAL LINKS
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