Jake Durham, an Oklahoma-based fine art photographer and author, has had photographic works featured by the Professional Photographers of America, Oklahoma Today Magazine, The Oklahoma Gazette, and other local publications. Jake has also authored photographic books, and he is a certified professional photographer. Originally from Chicago, Illinois, he spent most of his career as a pilot before going back to school to earn a doctorate in education. He now works as a university professor, and he spends his free time teaching and sharing his passion for photography. Jake currently resides in Konawa, Oklahoma, with his two children.
Abandoned as a school in the late 1960s, Harjo Consolidated Dist. No. 5 became one more statistic in the decay of the American education system. Institutions like Harjo once were,...