Artist Talks – Southbound: Photographs of and About the New South

Join us for artist talks by four photographers whose work is featured in our newest exhibition–Southbound: Photographs of and About the New South. The talks follow a brunch reception that begins at 11 a.m. Both events are free and open to the public.

About Southbound: The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to present our largest project to date, the exhibition Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South. This unprecedented photography exhibition 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 congeal, however fleetingly, in the spaces between the photographers’ looking, their images, and our own preexisting ideas about the region.