The following photographs are by students in the Fall 2002 Southern Studies Documentary Photography seminar, taught by Dr. David Wharton, the Center’s Director of Documentary Projects. There were ten students in the class—five graduate students and five undergraduates. Most had no previous photographic experience. Their semester-long assignment was to make photographs that touched upon the interconnected themes of change and tradition in Oxford and Lafayette County. Their goal was to compile a collaborative body of work worthy of exhibition.  They succeeded quite nicely: a seventy-one print exhibition entitled Yoknapatawpha 2002: Of Change and Tradition was on display at Barnard Observatory’s Lynn and Stewart Gammill Gallery from March through May 2003. Since the gallery is not big enough to show all of the good photographs the students made, each member of the class put together a twenty-print portfolio for display on the Center’s website. Enjoy.