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This Spring, the OA will focus on food.

Through fresh reporting, in-depth profiles, and daring personal essays, this issue will explore what we eat: people, industries, and tastes that both build and challenge our ideas of Southern food.

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Billie Carter-Rankin

About

Billie Carter-Rankin is an image-based artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She uses experimentation to focus on the absence of information within personal and collective memory, and the potential that is created as a result of the absence. She graduated with her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2020.

Articles

Eyes on the South

You are Where you're Supposed to Be

Through processed photos, image-based artist Billie Carter-Rankin witnesses her grandmother's growth in Milwaukee as part of the Southerners who moved North during the Great Migration.

By Billie Carter-Rankin
Eyes on the South

On Freedom and Possibility

In this Juneteenth edition of the Eyes on the South, photo-illustrator Billie Carter-Rankin reflects on resilience and liberation.

By Billie Carter-Rankin