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Eyes on the South

Eyes on the South

Dirt Track Sundays

Paul O'Mara’s photographs capture the essence of fellowship at Rome International Speedway.

By Paul O'Mara
Eyes on the South

You Kissed Me First

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

By Sharon Shapiro and Jody Fausett
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Cowboy Haven

Allowing only foot and horse traffic, it “also conjures an eerie ghostliness at quieter times of day.”

By Michaela O'Brien
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A Way Home

Migration and the definition of home through self-portraiture, archival photographs, and sculptural installations.

By Jay Simple

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
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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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Color Celebration

In Amanda Greene’s series, Humid and Tiresome, the artist delights in finding surprising objects in unexpected places.

By Amanda Greene
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People and Places

Whitten Sabbatini captures quiet moments across the Hill Country of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana in his black and white landscapes and portraits.

By Whitten Sabbatini
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Between the Magical and the Mundane

By Maury Gortemiller
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Optimism and Obsolescence

Scenes of archaeological sites and historical markers form a through line for the series, connecting the past with the present.

By Graham Hamby
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Parade Route

With painstaking clarity, Dalton captures scenes from Louisiana bayous, small-town Alabama, and urban centers of Texas.

By Scott Dalton

Pressures and Promise

By Anderson Wrangle

Houses of Worship

By Stan Strembicki

False Seas

By Brooke White
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The Flyover

In 2010 Ashley Jones began documenting the homes, businesses, and churches affected by the Earl T. Shinhoster Bridge on Interstate 16.

By Ashley Jones

Spectrum of Suffering

By Clay Maxwell Jordan

A Cure for Loneliness

Daniel Dorsa began taking the photographs for Paradise out of boredom, when he’d visit home and make long drives throughout South and Central Florida, looking

By Daniel Dorsa
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Sun Exposure

Grace Ann Leadbeater’s project, A Mouthful of Sun, derives from a childhood sense of disenchantment with the Sunshine State.

By Grace Ann Leadbeater

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