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.
Michael Mergen
About
Michael Mergen received an MFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2011. His work has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Mother Jones, and Once magazines. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, and his work is held in several public and private collections, including the University of Maine Museum of Art, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Urban Outfitters, Inc., and Center for Emerging Visual Artists. He teaches photography at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, where he lives with his wife and daughter.