Upcoming

SOUTHBOUND

PHOTOGRAPHS OF AND ABOUT THE NEW SOUTH

OPENING FALL 2020

On view October 22, 2020–February 14, 2021

ANNUAL MEMBERS MEETING AND SPECIAL PREVIEW RECEPTION Date TBD

IMAGES: (top) Susan Worsham, Marine, Hotel near Airport, Richmond, Virginia, 2009, Richmond, Virginia, from the series By The Grace of God, archival pigment print; (bottom) Alex Harris, Eliza’s Birthday Party, 2004, Durham, North Caroline, from the series Family, ultrachrome pigmented inkjet print

Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South comprises fifty-six photographers’ visions of the South over the first decades of the twenty-first century. Accordingly, it offers a composite image of the region. The photographs echo stories told about the South as a bastion of tradition, as a region remade through Americanization and globalization, and as a land full of surprising realities. The project’s purpose is to investigate senses of place in the South that come together, however fleetingly, in the spaces between the photographers’ looking, their images, and our own preexisting ideas about the region.

Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South was organized by the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston School of the Arts.