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Eyes on the South

Eyes on the South

Past and Present in Richmond, Virginia

An investigation of the reflections that come as we age

By Riley Goodman
Eyes on the South

Skipping Sundays

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

By Heather Evans Smith
Eyes on the South

Soulaan Femme

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

By Kourtney Iman King
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

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

Ghost Bird

Documenting the probable extinction of the ivory-billed woodpecker

By Dason Pettit
Eyes on the South

It Would Be Easy

When Bryan Tarnowski set out to take the photographs of the Mississippi Delta... he found the visual metaphors for poverty came too easily.

By Bryan Tarnowski
Eyes on the South

An Historic Transformation

By Blake Burton

The Quiet Zone

By Andrew Phelps and Paul Krantzler
Eyes on the South

When the Light Sculpts

Ben Depp’s Bayou’s End is the result of three years “flying above the bayous and wetlands of southern Louisiana in a powered paraglider.”

By Ben Depp
Eyes on the South

Never Returning

Steed’s project is concerned with the witness and discovery inherent in any journey.

By Ryan Steed

Between Structure and Nature

By Tianran Qin
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

The Crux of June

Baldwin’s photos are sun-drenched and peaceful, and evoke an idealized version of a carefree youthful summer in “the crux of June.”

By Isabelle Baldwin
Eyes on the South

In the Dark Woods

Attuned to the allure of “running away from the every day,” Genitempo’s project occupies the hazy space “between fact and fiction.”

By Matthew Genitempo
Eyes on the South

Hallowed Shells

By Kate Elizabeth Fowler
Eyes on the South

The Intimate and the Unfamiliar

By Bradley Marshall

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