During
the fall semester of 2003, members of the
Southern Studies Documentary
Photography seminar, taught by David Wharton,
traveled throughout Mississippi and its bordering
states making pictures about the relationships
between Southerners and the physical world
around them. There were nine students in the
course–Richie Caldwell, Christopher Hedglin,
Scott Kitchens, Lynn Linnemeier, Marcie Little,
Mary Ellen Maples, Nash Molpus, Mayumi Morishita,
and Angela Watkins.
At the end
of the semester, each student compiled
a 20-print portfolio
of his/her best images.
Collaboratively, the class also selected
71 of the photographs for exhibition at
Barnard
Observatory’s Gammill Gallery. That exhibition,
Southerners and Their World, will be shown
at the gallery from March through May 2004.
Here are a few of the pictures. More will soon
be available for viewing at the “special
projects” link at the Center’s Web
site (www.olemiss.edu/depts/south).
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Richie Caldwell, View from
Junkyard, Pontotoc,
Mississippi.
Christopher Hedglin, Antique
Car and Ghosts, Pontotoc County,
Mississippi.
Scott Kitchens, Kudzu Dog
and Highway, Lafayette County, Mississippi.
Lynn Linnemeier, Three
Generations on Highway 61, Mound Bayou, Mississippi.
Mary Ellen Maples, Cotton
Module,
Panola County, Mississippi.
Mayumi Morishita, Railroad
Bridge over the Tallahatchie, Lafayette
County, Mississippi.
Nash Molpus, Chairs on Porch,
Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Marci Little, Indian Bayou, Mississippi
Delta.
Angela Watkins, Tracks in
the Clay, Indianola, Mississippi.
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