Tag: Photography

Food Matters

Food Matters

Tom Rankin

I was in second grade in Kentucky when my friend Bobby invited me to spend Friday night with him and go fish a farm pond the next morning. His father, a long haul truck driver, was off work for the weekend and drove us some thirty miles out of town where we baited simple bream hooks with red worms and carefully watched our white and red bobbers, in youthful hope of success.

Little Dixie’s Circus Cemetery

Little Dixie’s Circus Cemetery

Tanya Finchum and Juliana Nykolaiszyn
Southern Borderlands

Southern Borderlands

Alex E. Chávez

"The strumming of stringed instruments booms out through the PA, elaborate fiddle melodies erupt, followed by the soaring voice of the poet-practitioner, embracing those present, scanning the scene before him . . . drifting, shaping, moving verses that elicit a chorus of gritos."

“Pride in Tobacco”: Roycroft’s Warehouse, 1982

“Pride in Tobacco”: Roycroft’s Warehouse, 1982

John T. Jones

The old saying “f/8 and be there” applies to these photos. In the early to mid 1980s, I was doing street photography in downtown Durham. Especially compelling was the warehouse district, home of the muscular, oversized tobacco auction warehouses and their supporting businesses.

Home in a New Place: Making Laos in Morganton, North Carolina

Home in a New Place: Making Laos in Morganton, North Carolina

Katy Clune
On the Participatory Archive: The Formation of the Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project

On the Participatory Archive: The Formation of the Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project

Karida L. Brown
This is a Reflection

This is a Reflection

Paige Prather
Missionary: Boyhood as an Elder

Missionary: Boyhood as an Elder

Marcus Journey
“It’s Not All Hard Candy and Horse Shit”: Christmas in Cat Square

“It’s Not All Hard Candy and Horse Shit”: Christmas in Cat Square

Aaron Canipe
Protesting the Privilege of Perception: Resistance to Documentary Work in Hale County, Alabama, 1900–2010

Protesting the Privilege of Perception: Resistance to Documentary Work in Hale County, Alabama, 1900–2010

Scott L. Matthews
Tell About the South: Four Photographic and Art Exhibitions of the 1996 Olympic Arts Festival (Review)

Tell About the South: Four Photographic and Art Exhibitions of the 1996 Olympic Arts Festival (Review)

Andy Ambrose
Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta by Tom Rankin (Review)

Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta by Tom Rankin (Review)

Susan Kidd