The New Orleans Photo Alliance has named an unfixed pilgrimage as the 2025 Award of Excellence in the second annual PhotoNOLA Photobook Prize, juried by Bill Boling of Fall Line Press.
The PhotoNOLA Photobook Prize celebrates creativity and excellence in photobook publishing. As the Award of Excellence winner, the book will be featured at the Photobook Prize table at the PhotoWALK and Photobook Fair at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art during the 2026 PhotoNOLA Festival in December.
an unfixed pilgrimage is co-authored with Sara J. Winston and features 40 black and white photographs (20 by Ragland; 20 by Winston) situated alongside text from Wendell Berry’s The Unforeseen Wilderness. The pictures document a range of intimate and quotidian moments while seeking beauty and meaning within domestic spaces and the wider landscapes of home. The book was edited, designed, printed, and case bound by the artists as two artist proofs in summer 2024 at Eliot Dudik Studios.
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