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February 2013 Featured Photographer : Joe Leavenworth

The subject matter of photographer Joe Leavenworth’s ongoing project “Native Son” is Atlanta’s city within the city, Decatur. Born but not raised in Decatur, GA, Leavenworth approaches the area as a self-aware outsider and creates a visual account of his … Continue reading

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Lisa Elmaleh: Juror Selection
One, One Thousand 2 Year Anniversary

“Lisa Elmaleh’s portraits of American folk musicians resonate with grace and honesty. That she uses the historic collodion process to render these intimate character studies demonstrates a perfect marriage of form and content; slow and deliberate, richly lyrical. Captured in … 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 Greg Miller’s photographic survey, "Nashville," thoughtfully combs Tennessee’s capital, acting as both a historical document and a personal account of a journey home.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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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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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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Musical Influences: The Songs Behind Pamela Pecchio’s
On Longing, Distance and Heavy Metal

In her project "On Longing, Distance and Heavy Metal," photographer Pamela Pecchio channels attributes of both metal music and her personal struggles and states of mind into landscape photographs. The titles of the photographs in her series are taken from … Continue reading

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Visual Influences Series:
Lauren Henkin

  Influences—like taste, like mood, like aesthetics—are ever-shifting. I am inspired all the time, mostly by artists not practicing in the medium of photography. It was an interesting task to focus on the artists or images, within this discipline, that … Continue reading

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November 2011 Featured Photographer : Aaron Canipe

When family members pass, we are left with the physical objects they amassed over years or sometimes even lifetimes. In his project, My Aggravatin’ Ways, Aaron Canipe returns home to North Carolina for his grandfather’s funeral, and he attempts to … Continue reading

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