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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Later this month I will be back on the road in Alabama to continue work on What Has Been Will Be Again through the generous support of a Brooklyn Darkroom artist residency.
Brooklyn Darkroom, a New York State 501(c)3, supports photographers by providing photography and travel resources and facilities for dedicated artist practitioners. The annual residency provides use of a fully equipped 2023 Winnebago Solis 59P pop-top camper for up to one month, a $4,000 stipend to cover travel, living, and materials expenses, and access to the Brooklyn Darkroom for development, printing, and finishing. Previous resident artists include noted photographers Trent Davis Bailey, Rose Marie Cromwell, Curran Hatleberg, Ian Kline, Andrew Lichtenstein, Irina Rozovsky, Mark Steinmetz, and Rachel Stern.
For my time in the camper, beginning in mid-May and continuing through mid-June, I’ll retrace the de Soto expedition and Old Federal Road through Alabama, also making stops in Mobile and Birmingham, spending time in the Sipsey Wilderness and Bankhead National Forest, and photographing through the small coal mining communities where my family originates.
Follow along via the Brooklyn Darkroom Instagram feed.
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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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