News of Southern Photographers -- Early Spring 2016

Several items of interest, here in the early days of spring in 2016.

1. Sumner, MS-based photographer Maude Schuyler Clay (see image above) has been celebrated by Photo District News (PDN) in its Photo Of The Day feature, go here, with images from her new book Mississippi History. 

Clay had to put up with the heading "Southern Charm" for her feature, and to be told by PDN editor Holly Stuart Hughes that her work, "shot "in a warm, glowing light," consists of "images that are quiet and contemplative," evoking "nostalga."

in a warm, glowing light, making images that are quiet and contemplative - See more at: http://potd.pdnonline.com/2016/03/37378/#sthash.jmEo1mHO.dpuf

Holly Stuart Hughes

Holly Stuart Hughes

Holly Stuart Hughes

I'm not sure how many more cliches of the South Hughes could have packed into her very brief statement, but I trust the check cleared, and that, as they say, there is no such thing as bad publicity. 
 

2. Durham-based photographer Justin Cook (see image above) has also been featured in PDN's Photo Of The Day blog feature, here, with images from his long-term project Made in Durham.

In Made in Durham, Cook documents the complexities of urban renewal in this growing North Carolina city, especially the deep-seated pain caused by the uneven economic impact of downtown revitalization, gentrification, and longstanding racial and economic inequality.

 
Cook's work is also the subject of a story in PDN’s March 2016 issue. 

In this piece, Cook describes the beginning of this project in his obsession with "recognizing the quiet violence in where we choose to live, and how we spend our money, and what we do with our politics, and how that affects other people.”  

Yessir, Mr Cook, you got that right. 

3. Ivette Spradlin (see image above), who grew up in Miami and holds a BFA from the University of Georgia, now lives in Pittsburgh, but may see da Nawth with the eyes of a Southerner. 

You can think about that when you check out Spradlin's work from her Everything Changed, Then Changed Again portfolio, featured in Fraction Magazine, here. 

4. Photographers featured on Jeff Rich's Eyes on the South Project for the Oxford American -- since we last checked -- include the following:

Florida-based photographer Bill Yates (see image above), with images from his Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink portfolio.

New Orleans-based photographer  AnnieLaurie Erickson, with images from her Slow Light portfolio, documenting the look of oil refineries up and down the Mississippi River, at night.

Farmville, VA-based photographer Michael Mergen (see image above), with images from his Confederate Heroes, Confederate Dead portfolio.

Nashville-based photographer Rebecca Drolen (see image above) with images from her Transplants portfolio, which explores how the regional culture of Nashville has been changed by the influence of people who have moved to Nashville from elsewhere.

New Orleans-based photographer Jamie Erin Johnson (see image above), with images from her Untamed portfolio, made in the swamps and woods of Mississippi and Louisiana. 

Lexington, KY-based photographer Sarah Hoskins (see image above), with images from her portfolio Bourbon as it Used to be, Now Castle and Key, about the ruin and rehabilitation of the Old Taylor distillery.

Atlanta-based photographer Stephanie Dowda (see image above), with images from her portfolio 33 Marks, which uses folds in large format film to suggest the costs of illness and loss in the passage of time.  

And that's all for now. But there is always more to come, with the Southern Photographer.  

Back soon!

“It’s recognizing the quiet violence in where we choose to live, and how we spend our money, and what we do with our politics, and how that affects other people.” - See more at: http://www.pdnonline.com/features/photographer-interviews/Scenes-of-the-Crimes-Brian-Cassella-on-Justin-Cook-s-Intimate-Look-at-Crime-and-Criminal-Justice-16127.shtml#sthash.91O4ZhmR.dpuf

But in that time, photojournalist Justin Cook has recorded a counter-narrative to that story about the city—his long-term project “Made in Durham” examines the deep-seated pain in the city, the result of longstanding racial and economic inequality. (Cook is also the subject of a story in PDN’s March 2016 issue, where he discusses how the project began.) - See more at: http://potd.pdnonline.com/2016/03/36948/#gallery-1

But in that time, photojournalist Justin Cook has recorded a counter-narrative to that story about the city—his long-term project “Made in Durham” examines the deep-seated pain in the city, the result of longstanding racial and economic inequality. - See more at: http://potd.pdnonline.com/2016/03/36948/#gallery-1

But in that time, photojournalist Justin Cook has recorded a counter-narrative to that story about the city—his long-term project “Made in Durham” examines the deep-seated pain in the city, the result of longstanding racial and economic inequality. (Cook is also the subject of a story in PDN’s March 2016 issue, where he discusses how the project began.) - See more at: http://potd.pdnonline.com/2016/03/36948/#gallery-1 long-term project “Made in Durham” examines the deep-seated pain in the city, the result of longstanding racial and economic inequality. (Cook is also the subject of a story in PDN’s March 2016 issue, where he discusses how the project began.)