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Eyes on the South

Eyes on the South

From Black, Queer, & Untold: A New Archive of Artists, Designers, and Trailblazers

By Jon Key
Issue 124, Spring 2024

Strange Parallels

A humongous conch shell, fenced in by chain-link. A tourist trap shaped like a lopsided ocean liner.

By José Castrellón
Eyes on the South

A Way to Get Gone

Darryl DeAngelo Terrell’s images conjure a mythic link between land and liberation.

By Darryl DeAngelo Terrell
Eyes on the South

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...

By EWANG

In Two Places at Once

June Canedo de Souza documents the very nature of families and the notion of home.

By June Canedo de Souza

Facts and Fictions

This collection of photographs depicts the “residue of cultural memory” that exists in Rabun, Georgia.

By Jennifer Garza-Cuen

 

 

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.
Eyes on the South

An Overwhelming Cacophony

In The Sound the Dryfly Makes, Ian Mahathey considers how boyhood aspirations are transformed by adulthood.

By Ian Mahathey
Eyes on the South

For Queer Kids

Peyton Fulford’s Infinite Tenderness explores notions “of intimacy and identity among the LGBTQ+ community in the American South.”

By Peyton Fulford
Eyes on the South

Collective Identity

Daily life in the small town of Wilson, North Carolina

By Keith Dannemiller

Eyes on the South

In the Georgia Archives

A modern interpretation of early twentieth-century Georgia folklore and mythology inspired by the W.P.A. Georgia Writers Project collection.

By Alec Kaus
Eyes on the South

Old Atlanta

Photographs taken in the 1960s and ’70s, featuring Atlanta’s Summerhill, Old Fourth Ward, and Vine City neighborhoods, as well as the MARTA bus line.

By Rusty Miller
Eyes on the South

Excellence and Diversity

A selection of works from the Do Good Fund collection
Eyes on the South

From Black, Queer, & Untold: A New Archive of Artists, Designers, and Trailblazers

By Jon Key
Eyes on the South

A Way to Get Gone

Darryl DeAngelo Terrell’s images conjure a mythic link between land and liberation.

By Darryl DeAngelo Terrell
Eyes on the South

South Texas Souls

Esparza photographs lived experiences that highlight a complex and under-told history of Texas.

By Jenelle Esparza
Eyes on the South

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
Eyes on the South

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
Eyes on the South

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
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

Fossils of the Future

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

By Kristen Regan
Eyes on the South

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
Eyes on the South

In Two Places at Once

June Canedo de Souza documents the very nature of families and the notion of home.

By June Canedo de Souza
Eyes on the South

Documenting Deeply

By Will Warasila