Tag: Photography

A Real Evidence of Community

A Real Evidence of Community

Kate Medley
Dawoud Bey’s Meditations on History and Vision

Dawoud Bey’s Meditations on History and Vision

Grace Elizabeth Hale
Blood Harmony

Blood Harmony

Rebecca Bengal
What Has Been Will Be Again

What Has Been Will Be Again

Jared Ragland, introduced by Catherine Wilkins
Impermanence

Impermanence

Daniel Kariko
Snapshot: Climate

Snapshot: Climate

Southern Cultures
Records of Light

Records of Light

Grace Elizabeth Hale
Walking with Ella Watson

Walking with Ella Watson

Jovonna Jones

Gordon Parks made a series of photographs for the Farm Security Administration in 1942. Parks intended to document the impact of racial bigotry on Black communities in Washington D.C., and found a resilient subject in Ella Watson, a Black woman who cleaned federal offices. This moment produced the iconic "American Gothic" portrait Parks made of Watson in the building that evening. But Watson also brought Parks to other critical spaces in her life, including her home altar and her worship community at the St. Martin's Spiritual Center. This essay meditates on the images of Watson's religious life. Walking with Watson into the sanctuary and documenting spiritualists' dynamic forms of worship helped Parks to focus his lens on the fullness of Black living beyond the burdens of systemic racism. The photographs help us to visualize how sacred liberatory spirit emerges in solitude and in collectivity, moving both within and beyond the walls of the sanctuary.

An Edible North Carolina History

An Edible North Carolina History

Marcie Cohen Ferris, photographs by Baxter Miller
An Uncommon Arrangement

An Uncommon Arrangement

Grace Elizabeth Hale

A review of “Picturing the South: 25 Years” from the High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia.

The Dirt

The Dirt

Grace Elizabeth Hale
Looking for Abolition

Looking for Abolition

Tiffany E. Barber and Adrian L. Burrell