Since 1994 Bruce West has been photographing the Rev. H.D. Dennis, a self-ordained preacher in Vicksburg, Mississippi. He has been busy for the last twenty years rebuilding his wife's grocery store into his own church, unconnected with any denomination. His efforts have already led to various towers, an Ark of the Covenant with the Ten Commandments in it, and a large collection of objects from religious popular culture. The prominent architect Samuel Mockbee proclaimed the result one of the most important architectonic sites in the south of the United States.

Bruce West (b. 1953, United States) is a professor at the Department of Art and Design at the Missouri State University.