Opening in the Gammill Gallery at Barnard Observatory in late March will be Yoknapatawpha 2001: Town and Country - Work by Southern Studies Photography Students. Ten students, most of whom had no previous photography experience, came together during the fall of 2001 in a Southern Studies graduate seminar offered by David Wharton. "This was a great group," Wharton says. "From the very start, they had their own ideas of what to photograph and how to photograph it. Some of the work in the show is very poetic and stretches the boundaries of what we normally think of as documentary photography."

The students whose work will be exhibited are Molly Boland, Stephen Bowles, Amy Evans, Rob Jolly, Mary Beth Lasseter, Preston Lauterbach, Shannon Payne, Katie Vinroot, Rana Wallace, and Joe York. With the exception of undergraduates Bowles and Jolly, all the students are enrolled in the University’s master’s program in Southern Studies. This exhibition is the second in what the Center projects as an annual spring exhibition of photographs by Southern Studies students in the Gammill Gallery.

Don't miss the Yoknapatawpha 2001 online exhibition! 
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Photographs:  (top) Eli & Elvis, Ole Miss Football Game by Mary Beth Lasseter
(bottom, clockwise from top) At Sky Mart: Preston Lauterbach; Construction Site: Joe York; Empty Chairs, near Sardis Lake: Rana Wallace