Description: The story of Cairo, Illinois, is one of constant struggle, beginning with repeated attempts to establish the town. Those efforts eventually paid off: Cairo grew from just a handful of settlers into a flourishing port city and a crossroads of Midwestern commerce.
Brief description: Regina Daniel specializes in urban exploration photography. She is also the owner and operator of Red Vixen Photography. Covering much of the Kansas City area and surrounding vicinities, she has gone on to travel through seven states in the Midwest doing her abandoned photography. What started as curiosity for the abandonment has turned into documenting the forgotten or lesser-known history lessons and photographing what has stood the test of time. That change from curiosity to preservation led her to write the Abandoned Kansas City book series, Abandoned Eastern Kansas, and Abandoned Pitcher, Oklahoma.