Nashville, Tennessee-based photographer Thomas Petillo is perhaps best known for his strikingly intimate portraits of great musicians (Robert Plant, John Prine, Kid Rock and Porter Wagoner, to name only a few). But a very different Petillo has emerged in the last few years as the result of a series of commissions by Hammock, the ambient duo, who asked him to create images for their recordings. Petillo's photographs complimented the haunting beauty of Hammock's music so perfectly that it's now hard to listen to Hammock without thinking of a Petillo image.

In November of 2007, The Gallery@404B presented the first-ever solo exhibition of Thomas Petillo's works. The show was a mixture of his celebrity musician portraits and his Hammock commissions. In the summer of 2008 Hammock commissioned Petillo to tour the American southland and capture images that would portray the spirit of decay. The work that resulted was presented in November 2008 at The Gallery@404B as the "Southscapes + Polaroids" show.