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Eyes on the South

Eyes on the South

The Body Politic

Yet, even in sorrow, there is hope.

By Christopher C. Fisher
Eyes on the South

The Kentuckian

A visual record and tribute to the dignity of labor in its many forms

By James Robert Southard
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Past and Present in Richmond, Virginia

An investigation of the reflections that come as we age

By Riley Goodman
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Skipping Sundays

How is it that some can wholeheartedly embrace traditional faith while the rest of us are left questioning?

By Heather Evans Smith

You Kissed Me First

These works transform bodies and objects into an erotics of absence.

By Sharon Shapiro and Jody Fausett

Soulaan Femme

These portraits act as a metaphorical mirror, revealing both the intrinsic and performed aspects of identity.

By Kourtney Iman King

 

 

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
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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
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Collective Identity

Daily life in the small town of Wilson, North Carolina

By Keith Dannemiller

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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
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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
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Excellence and Diversity

A selection of works from the Do Good Fund collection
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Documenting Deeply

By Will Warasila
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A Way Home

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
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Vision and Values

From Yonder Wooded Hill explores photographer Riley Goodman’s blue-collar background and the Appalachian folklore of his upbringing.

By Riley Goodman

Guiding Light

Home to the oldest Spiritualist community in the South, Cassadaga is one of the few places in the United States where mediums and healers practice year-round.

By Scott McIntyre
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Rhythm and Rhyme

Documenting the unique traditions of the Uptown neighborhoods, Brown captures the lively atmosphere of “masking” on Mardi Gras.

By Rob Brown

Stroll and Strut

By Karen Halverson
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Sinking Slowly

In unsettling landscapes, Hanusik examines “the increasing fragility of the built environment and instability of the natural world.”

By Virginia Hanusik

Apocryphal Portrait

By Shawne Brown
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Pickled Memories

Adrian White creates a series of photographs documenting his family’s past and present while imagining a better future.

By Adrian White
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On the Margins

Tamara Reynolds documents with arresting clarity the community in and around the Drake Motel in Nashville, Tennessee.

By Tamara Reynolds

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