Snapshot: Waughtown Street, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 2019

Photo by Aaron Canipe

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Snapshot: Waughtown Street, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 2019

by Aaron Canipe
Southern Cultures, Vol. 26, No. 1: Documentary Moment

“It’s another muggy southern summer and the landscape is overgrown with signs and symbols following in its oxygen. How much hill can a person bear?”

The thing about moments for me is that they’re never about one thing. Frustratingly, photography carries a singular moment in time but must bear the weight, too—of context, truth, and all moments before and after. As Michael Ondaatje writes in Divisadero: “Everything is collage.”