An interdisciplinary journal about regions, places, and cultures of the U.S. South and their global connections

Photo Essays

Photo essays are collections of original photography that explore real and imagined places of the U.S. South, or make connections and comparisons between the South, southern regions, and other areas of the world. They include a short critical writing component.

Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange

Charles D. Thompson, Jr., Duke University
with Alexander Stephens, Marian Cheek Jackson Center
22 March 2012
photo essay

Palomares Bajo

John Howard, King's College London
23 August 2011
photo essay

Residues of Border Control

Susan Harbage Page, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Inés Valdez, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
17 April 2011
photo essay

Low Country Travelers:  An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina

Nancy Marshall, Photographer

John McWilliams, Photographer
21 October 2010
photo essay

Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition

Dorothy Moye, Decatur, Georgia
26 August 2010
photo essay

The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia

John Howard, King's College London
26 January 2010
photo essay

Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the U.S. South

Tom Zarrilli, Atlanta, GA
19 August 2009
photo essay

Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters

Robin Conner, Georgia State University

Paul Johnson, Photographer
10 October 2008
photo essay

Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment

Earl Dotter, Photographer
16 July 2008
photo essay

Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising

Amie Vanderford, Photographer
7 July 2008
photo essay

Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm

Nancy Marshall, Photographer
28 April 2008
photo essay

Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi

Erin Austen Abbott, Photographer
19 February 2008
photo essay

Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives

Bruce West, Missouri State University

Todd Bertolaet, Florida A&M University

David Wharton, University of Mississippi
15 February 2008
photo essay

I-26, Corridor of Change
Rob Amberg, Madison County, North Carolina
5 June 2007
photo essay

Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities

David Wharton, University of Mississippi
28 February 2007
photo essay

From Raw Cotton to Cloth

Pressly Hall, Chester, South Carolina

James L. Hughes III, Emory University
22 November 2006
photo essay

Birdhouses

Rob McDonald, Virginia Military Institute
12 July 2006
photo essay

Roadside Architecture

David Wharton, University of Mississippi
1 February 2005
photo essay