Now updated with broadcast details
Video: Watch as We Photograph Abandoned Places for “Griff’s Great American South,” a TV Travel Show Broadcast in England and Australia
In November 2024, Teena and I made a whirlwind trip to the Mississippi Delta where I appeared in front of the cameras filming an episode for a British / Australian television travel show focused on the American South.
The show is hosted by Griff Rhys Jones, O.B.E. (Order of the British Empire), a Welsh comedian and television personality who hosts travel shows for Britain and Australia. He was in the U.S. with a Sydney-based crew of four, traveling across the American South from Charleston to New Orleans.

About a month prior to filming, I received an email from a researcher for the production company in Sydney asking if I would be willing to meet Griff for a session making photographs of an abandoned location in Mississippi.
Luckily, the light was perfect on the day we filmed!
I won’t lie, shooting with a crew and a host was a little weird for me!
Watch the video to see what the day was like for Teena and I, working with the TV crew on location.

When and where will the show be on television?
The series, “Griff’s Great American South,” consists of six, one-hour episodes and my segment falls in the Memphis, Tennessee episode. My segment is brief, only about 2 minutes long, and it starts around the 32-minute mark of the Memphis episode.

Initial broadcasts were in the summer of 2025 in the UK on Channel 4 and in Australia on ABC. If Griff’s previous travel series serve as examples, this new series should eventually find it’s way to Amazon Prime or one of the other streaming services.
A few of my black and white photographs from the day were shown in the episode.
Behind-the-scenes photos from the day of filming in Mississippi









Above, Teena shot this Polaroid portrait in a small ghost town in Mississippi on new Polaroid i-type black and white film. I really like this new film — I think Polaroid is finally getting close to good on their materials. It commemorates our trip to the ghost town for filming of an Australian TV show about the American South.
Some of my black and white photographs taken on location
Many of these photographs are slated to appear in the Australian TV episode filmed in Mississippi.






Very Cool, Keith! Could end up with an invite to Down Under. 🙂