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Documentary Fieldwork Photographs -- Community
Portraiture in Six Small Towns Near Oxford, Mississippi
During the 2004 fall semester, 12 students at the University of Mississippi taking Dr. David Wharton's documentary photography seminar at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, visited six towns in northern Mississippi to make community portraits. The communities they photographed were Batesville, Bruce, Holly Springs, New Albany, Pontotoc, and Water Valley.
At the end of the semester, each student compiled a 25-print portfolio of his or her best images. Working together, the class also selected 72 of the group's photographs for exhibition at Barnard Observatory’s Gammill Gallery in Oxford. That show, Community Photography, ran from March 25 through May 31 at the Gammill Gallery. It was the second in a series of exhibitions displayed as part of the Mississippi Hills Documentary Project, a collaboration between the Center and the Mississippi Hills Heritage Area Alliance.
From June 10 through July 10, 2005, The Fire House Gallery proudly brought this exhibition, here titled Documentary Fieldwork Photographs -- Community Portraiture in Six Small Towns Near Oxford, Mississippi, to Louisville, Georgia.
The exhibition is sampled below.
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