NEWS
RECENT/UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS + PUBLICATIONS:
(click links in bold or see blog entries below for more info)
Recent and Upcoming Exhibitions:
- Small but Smaller, FLOOR_, Seoul, South Korea
- 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:
- “Being Better People: Drug Using Careers and Petyote” published in Justice Quarterly, the top-ranked criminology journal in the world
- “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
- Upstreams Deadfalls, published by Deadfall Press
- “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
- “Visually Representing Rural: Ethics of Photographing Marginalized People in the Rural South” book chapter published in Research Methods for Rural Criminologists, Routledge
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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.
An opening reception is scheduled for 5-8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7. To learn more about the Bear Lake project visit the website.
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The Atlanta Center for Photography (ACP) has released their first-ever group photo publication, New South Vol. 1: Reciprocity, during a panel during the inaugural Atlanta Art Fair. An image from What Has Been Will Be Again, Spring Hill, Barbour County. Michael Farmer..., is included alongside 34 Southern-based artists including Sheila Pree Bright, Riley Goodman, Irina Rozovsky, and Rylan Steele. New South surveys the breadth and depth of photography in the American South, revealing and connecting the most important ideas underlying lens-based media in our region today.
The Atlanta Center for Photography (ACP) advances new perspectives in lens-based media from the American South. Through artwork commissions, community collaborations, and dynamic programs, ACP supports photography as an inclusive and transformational cultural force, positioning Atlanta at the forefront of contemporary lens-based practice and thought.
Copies are available here.
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Spring Hill, Barbour County, Alabama — Michael Farmer Fashions a Scarecrow in His Garden on Election Day, 2020. Michael Farmer’s family has lived in Spring Hill for generations, where the predominantly Black community has faced a history of racial violence and voter disenfranchisement. On November 3, 1874 a white mob attacked the Spring Hill polling station, destroyed the ballot box, burned the ballots, and murdered the election supervisor’s son. When asked what he hoped might come from the 2020 presidential election, Farmer said, “I hope the young folks might think about what their ancestors came through to get where we are.”
A limited edition print of Spring Hill, Barbour County, Alabama. Michael Farmer... from the series What Has Been Will Be Again is available for a limited time through f22 Prints.
f22 is designed to support contemporary photographers while making art affordable and accessible to both long time and new collectors. Over the course of a year, Chicago-based f22 features 22 contemporary photographers; every other week, one limited edition fine art print is released and only available for that week. The limited-edition prints are museum-quality, printed with archival pigment inks on 100% cotton photo rag paper. Each print is numbered and hand-signed by the artist.
25% of all sales of Spring Hill... will be donated to the Harris/Walz campaign. To order, visit: https://www.f22prints.com/jared-ragland
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