Projects featured over the next several days were selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was able to interview each of these individuals to gain further insight into the bodies of work they shared. Today, we are looking at the series Wild Spirits, by Evy Huppert. Wild Spirits I made this work on journeys south to untamed places […]
The South
Clay Maxwell Jordan: Nothing’s Coming Soon
Clay Maxwell Jordan, photographer and musician, has a new monograph, Nothing’s Coming Soon, published by Fall Line Press. The photographs of the American South were inspired by the Buddhist belief that “life is suffering” and a place where grace and beauty is juxtaposed with loss and decay. The book is “a poetic, existential meditation on […]
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South
It is such a pleasure to introduce Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South. Over the next week, we will feature selections of images from each of the 56 artists included in the project, as well as accompanying essays, maps, and videos. This expansive, comprehensive, multimedia investigation into what it means to be of, from, by […]
Eleanor Owen Kerr: On the Batture
I first saw Baton Rouge-based Eleanor Owen Kerr‘s photographs in a workshop in Maine last summer. I was mesmerized, not only by the foreign landscape that she had captured, but by the deeply moving way she had captured it. These were intimate, meditative, soulful photographs of a mysterious and magical place known as the Mississippi […]