The following photographs are by students in the Fall 2000 Southern Studies Documentary Photography seminar, taught by Dr. David Wharton, the Center’s Director of Documentary Projects. There were nine students in the class, most of whom had no previous photographic experience. Their semester-long assignment was to photograph the visible face of change in Oxford and Lafayette County and to compile a collaborative body of work worthy of exhibition.   They succeeded quite nicely: a seventy-one print exhibition entitled Yoknapatawpha 2000: The Changing Face of Lafayette County was on display at Barnard Observatory’s Lynn and Stewart Gammill Gallery from March through May 2001. Unfortunately, there was not room in the gallery for all of the good work the students did, so each compiled a twenty-print portfolio for display on the Center’s Web site. Enjoy!

Photos by (from left to right): Kay Walraven, Brian Fisher, and Evan Hatch