NEWS
RECENT/UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS + PUBLICATIONS:
(click links in bold or see blog entries below for more info)
Recent and Upcoming Exhibitions:
- 19th Biennial Joyce Elaine Grant Exhibition, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX (juried by Mazie M. Harris)
- Small but Smaller, FLOOR_, Seoul, South Korea, 2024
- As Pretty Does, Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL (curated by Micah Mermilliod)
- Invisible Architectures | Social Contracts, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, May 16-June 29, 2024 (curated by Doreen Bolger)
- Just as Your Ship's Drifting in They're Pushing Out the Tide, Tempus Volta, Tampa, FL, March 6-May 7, 2024 (curated by Jenal Dolson)
- Context 2024, Filter Photo, Chicago, IL, Mar. 22-Apr. 27, 2024 (curated by Sarah Kennel)
- Mapping Perspectives, Throughline, Houston, TX, Mar. 8-30, 2024 (curated by Samantha Johnston)
- In the Shadow of the Moon, Windgate Museum of Art, Hendrix College, Jan. 26-Apr. 13, 2024 (curated by Christian Cutler)
Recent Select Publications:
- “In Idaho, a preview of RFK Jr.’s vaccine-skeptical America,” photographs for The Washington Post
- Visual Methods for Sensitive Images: Ethics and Reflexivity in Criminology On/Offline, published by Palgrave Macmillan
- “Being Better People: Drug Using Careers and Petyote” published in Justice Quarterly, the top-ranked criminology journal in the world
- New South published by Atlanta Center for Photography
- “What Has Been Will Be Again,” Southern Cultures
- “Slaying the vampire that is killing bats,” photographs for The Washington Post
- “Peyote as Earth Medicine: Examining How Symbolic Meanings Shape Experiences With Psychedelics” published in The British Journal of Criminology, featuring photographs from The Circle
- “Biden’s renewable energy goals blow up against a painful WWII legacy,” photographs for The Washington Post
- Reckonings & Reconstructions published by UGA Press
- “Sex, Drugs, and Coercive Control: Gendered Narratives of Methamphetamine Use, Relationships, and Violence” photo essay published in Criminology, the first ever of its kind for the flagship social science journal
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On assignment for The Washington Post in Caldwell, Idaho, where under influence of misinformation an Idaho health district has banned public clinics from distributing the coronavirus vaccine. Story by Lauren Weber/Photo Editor Sandra Stevenson.
Read: In Idaho, a preview of RFK Jr.’s vaccine-skeptical America here.
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A chapter co-authored with Heith Copes, PhD and featuring images and research findings from Hellbender and The Circle is included in a new textbook, Visual Methods for Sensitive Images: Ethics and Reflexivity in Criminology On/Offline, published by Palgrave Macmillan as part of the Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture series. Edited by Silje Anderdal Bakken & Sidsel Harder, the book focuses on collecting, analyzing, and mediating sensitive visual data and covers a wide array of current examples and discussions of visual methods and ethics in contemporary, digital-life criminology.
Chapter Abstract:
Incorporating photographs into research on crime and justice can be a valuable tool for those who seek to understand the lives of those who engage in crime and drug use. Using photographs requires researchers to be aware of the ethical issues when incorporating and publishing images in public works. Our aim in this chapter is to discuss some of these ethical (and practical) issues that emerge when including photographs in research about crime and justice. Specifically, we discuss issues such as obtaining informed consent, empowering participants, and portraying people in ways that facilitate reflection and change. We rely on our prior work using photographs to study those who use drugs (e.g., methamphetamine and peyote) in rural Alabama to inform our discussion.
For more, visit: link.springer.com/book/9783031753718
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Four photographs from What Has Been... will be included in the 2024 CURRENTS exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, Dec. 13, 2024-Feb. 23, 2025. The exhibition will open with a reception, Friday, Dec. 13, 5-9pm, during the 19th annual PhotoNOLA festival.
CURRENTS is an annual exhibition designed to give an overview of contemporary photographic practices and projects and highlights the diverse photographic work being created by New Orleans Photo Alliance members. CURRENTS 2024 is curated by Liv Constable-Maxwell, a commissioning editor at the London-based publisher “MACK,” and features eight photographers: Mark Armbruster; Josh Aronson; Thomas Crawford; David Joshua Jennings; Phi Nguyen; Jared Ragland; Linda Reno; and Aline Smithson.
Liv Constable-Maxwell is Commissioning Editor at the London-based publisher “MACK.” Her recent projects include Stephen Shore’s “Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography,” “Tee A. Corinne: A forest fire between us,” RaMell Ross’ “Spell Time Practice American Body,” Francesca Woodman’s “The Artist’s Books” and “Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography.”
PhotoNOLA is an annual celebration of photography that is produced by the New Orleans Photo Alliance in partnership with museums, galleries, and venues citywide. Showcasing work by photographers near and far, the festival includes exhibitions, workshops, lectures, a portfolio review, and more.
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An exhibition focusing on issues surrounding Bear Lake, Utah/Idaho, made in collaboration with my USU documentary students, will be on view Nov. 4-Dec. 13 at the university’s Tippetts and Eccles Galleries with an opening recption scheduled for Nov. 7, 5-8pm.
From the press release:
Utah State University photography students, under the guidance of Assistant Professor of Photography Jared Ragland, are playing a key role to document challenges facing Bear Lake.
The Bear Lake Needs Assessment Documentation and Visualization Project blends scientific research with visual storytelling to raise awareness of critical issues surrounding Bear Lake’s natural resources, land use and human impact. Photographs from the project will be exhibited from Nov. 4-Dec. 13 in the Tippetts and Eccles Galleries at USU’s Chase Fine Arts Center.
The project is one of 10 Bear Lake Needs Assessment research projects funded by grants from the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands and administered by USU’s Institute for Land, Water and Air (ILWA) to study critical issues within Bear Lake and the lands around it.
Bear Lake is unique in the region as one of just three large natural lakes in Utah. Over the past decade, visitation to Bear Lake, located on the Idaho-Utah border, has surged by 300%, amplifying concerns over development, water management and environmental sustainability. This has created additional challenges for the lake and those who maintain the land.
Through more than 20 field visits in 2024, Ragland and his students in the ART 3830 Documentary and Visual Storytelling class have worked with local stakeholders and Bear Lake Needs Assessment Project research teams. Ragland and his students have created a visual record that reflects the lake’s unique agriculture, infrastructure, recreation and ecological features while highlighting the efforts of USU researchers and community partners to safeguard the lake’s future.
The student photographers are Lele Bonizzi; Eli Clare; Anastasia Coleman; Kennedy Fry; Annora Madden; and Kennedy McLeod.
Following the exhibition, select images from the documentary project will be featured in ILWA’s annual Report to the Governor and Legislature on Utah’s Land, Water and Air, and included in a comprehensive report to address the lake’s long-term management and support informed decision-making for future policies. An archive containing several hundred digital images will be archived by ILWA and provide a lasting resource for research and advocacy.
“At USU Photo, we are guided in our belief in photography’s critical role in contemporary culture,” Ragland said. “Through the making, learning and sharing of images, we encourage students to utilize photography as a tool for compassionate citizenship, meaningful storytelling, and impactful social change.
The Bear Lake Needs Assessment Documentation and Visualization Project has embodied these goals, Ragland said.
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