An assignment from late last year, photographing the folks in Fort Mill who invented the hottest pepper in the world, The Carolina Reaper. I also wrote the article for this, which has not been published at the time of this posting.

In the greenhouse

The Carolina Reaper

Talking shop

A variety of peppers

Smokin’ Ed Currie, who bred the Carolina Reaper

Inside PuckerButt Pepper Co. in Fort Mill, S.C.