The following photographs are by students in the Fall 2001 Southern Studies Documentary Photography seminar, taught by Dr. David Wharton, the Center’s Director of Documentary Projects. There were ten students in the class—eight graduate students and two undergraduates. Most had no previous photographic experience. Their semester-long assignment was to photograph the wide variety of lifestyles 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 2001: Town and Country was on display at Barnard Observatory’s Lynn and Stewart Gammill Gallery from March through May 2002.  Unfortunately, the gallery did have room for all the fine photographs the students made, so each member of the class put together a twenty-print portfolio for display on the Center’s Web site. We hope you enjoy the pictures.