Category: The American South

Cocoa Laney

Cocoa Laney (b. 1994) is an American documentary photographer currently based in the UK whose work explores issues of identity, feminism, and religion. She holds an MA in documentary photography…

In Conversation: Carl Martin

Carl Martin is an artist and designer based in Athens, Georgia. Trained at the School of Visual Arts in New York, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship for photography and has…

BEHIND THE SCENES: A CONVERSATION WITH ASHLYN DAVIS

‘Behind The Scenes’ For our new ‘Behind The Scenes’ series, we interview those that find art, champion art, and talk about art. These influencers, whether it be art critics, independent…

Across State Lines – “Brass Balls & Shopping Malls”

THE UNITED STATES ARE   BEGINNING TO LOOK THE SAME   The United States easily could be separated in to 57 states – give me a permanent marker and I…

Lara Shipley and Antone Dolezal

Lara Shipley and Antone Dolezal are originally from the Ozark region of the Midwest. They are collaborators on Devil’s Promenade, which uses Ozark folklore as a basis for a project…

Cody Cobb

Cody Cobb (b. 1984) is an American photographer based in Seattle, Washington. His photography attempts to capture portraits of the Earth’s surface, devoid of human interaction and interference.1 South This…

AMBER SHIELDS

Amber Shields holds a BA in photojournalism from Loyola University in New Orleans, LA and an MFA in photography from San Jose State University in California. Her photographs have been…

Daniel Kraus

Daniel Seth Kraus currently resides in Jacksonville, Florida where he earned a BFA with a concentration in Photography and a BA in History from the University of North Florida. His…

Tammy Mercure

Tammy Mercure (b. 1976) was recently named one of the “100 under 100: The New Superstars of Southern Art” by Oxford American magazine. She has been featured on CNN Photos,…

Amanda Greene

Amanda Greene was born in Clayton, GA in 1975. She grew up in Atlanta, GA and then traveled west to attend Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. She…

Houston Cofield

Houston Cofield is a photographer from Memphis, TN currently living in Chicago, IL where he is a second year MFA candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Houston uses…

Constanze Flamme

Constanze Flamme was born 1981 in Husum, Germany. She studied Communication Design in Potsdam and photography in Amsterdam. Constanze has received travel and project grants from Academy of Arts, Berlin…

Joe Leavenworth

Joe Leavenworth was born in Decatur, Georgia 1985, raised in Woodbury, Connecticut and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2007.…

Akasha Rabut

Akasha Rabut is a photographer based in New Orleans and New York City. She has a BFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has been published in…

Joshua Dudley Greer

Joshua Dudley Greer (b. 1980 Hazleton, PA) received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and his MFA, with distinction, from the University of Georgia in…

Stephen Milner

Stephen Milner was born and raised on the north fork of Long Island. Surrounded by water, he has always been drawn to the ocean and its culture. Stephen always seeks…

Marcie Hancock

Marcie Hancock is a photographer and occasional writer focusing on regionally based projects in southern and central Appalachia, as well as the greater South. Her work investigates issues of materiality,…

John Hathaway

John Lusk Hathaway was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He received his MFA from East Tennessee State University in May 2012. John was recently nominated for the 2014 Baum Award and…

Aaron Blum

Aaron Blum was born in the hills of Appalachia, which his artistic work centers around. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally at such places as The Halpert Biennial: Appalachian…

Bruce West

Bruce West is a photographer and professor at Missouri State University. His photographic projects include Take Time to Appreciate (a survey of the rural landscape and culture of Mississippi), The…

Sara Macel

Sara Macel is an artist and photographer born and raised in Spring, Texas and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media…

Rachel Boillot

Rachel Boillot (b. 1987) grew up in New York and Singapore. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Tufts University and The School of the Museum of Fine…

Clementine Schneidermann

Clementine Schneidermann was born in 1991 in France. She studied photography at the Applied art school of Vevey, Switzerland and is now undertaking a Master course in documentary photography at…

Eliza Lamb

Eliza Lamb is a native of Richmond, Virginia. She is a graduate of both the Savannah College of Art and Design and Columbia University, where she is currently pursuing her…