Author Archives: One, One Thousand

October 2012 Featured Photographer : Rick Olivier

Les haricots ne sont pas salés. Combining aspects of Cajun, blues, and many other musical styles, Zydeco music has flourished in southwest Louisiana since it’s evolution around the early 19th century. In his project "Zydeco," Rick Olivier documents the clubs … Continue reading

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October 2012 Featured Photographer : Kevin Kline

Following in the tradition of personal documentarians such as Diane Arbus, photographer Kevin Kline compassionately examines both the banality and eccentricity of everyday life. The black and white portraits in Kline’s project "someday you will be a memory" focus on … Continue reading

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September 2012 Featured Photographer : Tammy Mercure

From Nascar races to Civil War reenactments, photographer Tammy Mercure explores potential motives of southern pride through the documentation of celebratory events. This is a selection of portraits from Mercure’s larger photography project, "Cavaliers." Click here to see Tammy Mercure’s … Continue reading

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September 2012 Featured Photographer : Greg Miller

The contemporary southern narrative often includes moments of regional estrangement followed by renewed regional engagement. Greg Miller’s photographic survey, "Nashville," thoughtfully combs Tennessee’s capital, acting as both a historical document and a personal account of a journey home. Click here … Continue reading

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August 2012 Featured Photographer : Richard Lou

Thomas Gainsborough’s painting, "Mr and Mrs Andres", shows a white married couple sitting for a portrait overlooking their land, the husband holding a gun under his arm. In his project, "Ownership Society: A Conundrum," photographer Richard Lou evokes the painting … Continue reading

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August 2012 Featured Photographer : Laura Noel

In his short story, "Thank You for the Light," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "Smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road." Laura Noel’s project, "Smoke Break," observes this peculiar … Continue reading

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July 2012 Featured Photographer : Adam Kuehl

First introduced to the Southeast in 1883 at the New Orleans Exposition, kudzu is a vine that was marketed as an ornamental plant to shade porches and later sold as a cover plant to prevent soil erosion. Now considered a … Continue reading

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July 2012 Featured Photographer : Tim Gruber

Along the coast of North Carolina (and the southeastern corner of Virginia), lies a string of barrier islands almost 200 miles long known as the Outer Banks. Even as protective sand dunes dangerously erode, residents remain divided on issues of … Continue reading

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June 2012 Featured Photographer : Stacy Kranitz

As a part of her larger project, "Regression to the Mean," photographer Stacy Kranitz travels to regions of the American South often the target of negative cultural preconceptions. Kranitz’s dialectical photographic method attempts to present balance through the confrontation of … Continue reading

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May 2012 Featured Photographer : Lisa Elmaleh

The postwar baby boom era ushered in a period of rapid growth and development in South Florida which never stopped, and this growth has unsurprisingly jeopardized the health of the Everglades— subtropical wetlands that make up most of the region. … Continue reading

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