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In Issue 121, contributors explore the possibilities of the South’s bodies—physical, political, and spiritual—and find joy and purpose across a range of media.


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Clay and Water

For Mika Fengler, the practice of photography is a buffer against “the incessant drumming of capitalism’s effects on culture and the land.”

By Mika Fengler

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Loud Quiet Loud

In “The Kids Will Be All Right,” Jones collects a set of black-and-white photographs that exist on the border of calm and chaos.

By Cory Jones

Issue 120, Spring 2023

Dear Atlanta: Manipulation of the Reflection

In her visual love letter to ATL, Nicole Hernandez photographs authentic interactions between friends, lovers, and mothers.

By Nicole Hernandez

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Atlanta Signage: Looking Up

This ongoing photo series gives light to the seemingly overlooked places and signs in Atlanta that may not stand the test of time and gentrification.

By EWANG

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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

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Fossils of the Future

Kristen Regan imagines modernized fossils made up of organic elements fused with discarded plastic objects.

By Kristen Regan

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Hunting for the Archetype

I hunt for the archetype in the landscape and find hints of the apocalypse in the world around me.

By Julie Dermansky

In Two Places at Once

By June Canedo de Souza

Documenting Deeply

By Will Warasila

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A Way Home

Photographer Jay Simple explores ideas surrounding migration and the definition of home through self-portraiture, archival photographs, and sculptural installations.

By Jay Simple

The Coast of Baton Rouge

By William Greiner

Childhood Dreams, Adult Realities

By Dason Pettit