George Havard Yerger, along with his wife and photography partner Leslie Addison, is enamored with the rural South. He and Addison scour the back roads of Louisiana and Mississippi and stop to take pictures when the landscape moves them. A native of Mound, Louisiana, Yerger is proud of his ancestral roots in the Louisiana and Mississippi Deltas. Often photojournalistic in approach, Yerger is drawn to symbols, signs, and local folks representative of the Southern way. Addison and Yerger's work is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Fine Arts Houston; The Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS; The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; The Louisiana Arts and Science Museum, Baton Rouge; The High Museum of Art in Atlanta; and The New Orleans Museum of Art. Their work has been featured at the Contemporary Art Center, in New Orleans and in exhibitions at the Mississippi Museum of Art, and University of Southern Mississippi Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The Louisiana Arts and Science Museum among others. Awards include a Fellowship from the Pollock/Krasner Foundation, the Louisiana State Division of the Arts, Artist Fellowship (both artists, consecutive years) and two Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation grants. Lifelong residents of the Southern US, they have completed several Art documentary projects about their own unique Southern Culture. For many years they have also been passionately involved in projects in South and Central America. This work has taken them to Peru, Bolivia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Ecuador, Dominican Republic and Haiti. In addition, they have been under contracts by US and German based medical non-profits. They travel around the world, documenting their programs and the underserved people in developing countries that have been assisted. Yerger earned his BA from Southeastern Louisiana University.