Radar Poetry Issue 29
Mount Zion No. 1 Baptist Church, Rodney, Mississippi, 2020 from Southern Fiction is published in Radar Poetry’s Issue 29 accompanying a poem by Ruth Dikey, ALL THE WAYS WE ARE TETHERED TO THE EARTH.
Mount Zion No. 1 Baptist Church, Rodney, Mississippi, 2020 from Southern Fiction is published in Radar Poetry’s Issue 29 accompanying a poem by Ruth Dikey, ALL THE WAYS WE ARE TETHERED TO THE EARTH.
I will be teaching two virtual photography classes on Thursday, February 11 and Thursday, February 18 from 6-8pm in conjunction with the Asheville Art Museum’s current photography exhibition, Vantage Points: Contemporary Photography from the Whitney Museum of American Art. The first class will consist of an artist talk about my own work, and the second […]
A Charged Stillness: Tema Stauffer Interviewed by Kathryn Savage published in BOMB Magazine online on January 13, 2021
Jill’s Room, Rowan Oak, Oxford, Mississippi, 2020 from SOUTHERN FICTION is available through Baxter Street CCNY’s Artist in Focus Fund Anniversary Print Sale, along with work by more than 75 artists. Artists in Focus Fund is a print sale and relief initiative to directly support artists. All prints are $150 between Dec. 2 and Dec. […]
In June, as protests against racial discrimination and violence were exploding across the country in the wake of George Floyd’s death, I made two trips to Eatonton, GA to explore the roots of author Alice Walker for my body of work in-progress, SOUTHERN FICTION. Three images shot on Wards Chapel Road, one portraying the church […]
I’ve donated a photograph shot in March 2020 of a mural commemorating the 1966 Port Gibson Boycott led by the NAACP in Mississippi from my body of work in-progress, SOUTHERN FICTION, to Rocket Science Magazine’s fundraiser dedicated to organizations who support Black lives and the ongoing fight against racism. On April 1, 1966, the local […]
William Faulkner’s Kitchen Curtains, Rowan Oak, Oxford, Mississippi, 2019 Southern Fiction, a new series in-progress exploring the settings that inspired the literary work of iconic 20th-century Southern writers, received a Small Grant Award in 2019 and a Major Grant Award in 2020 from East Tennessee State University’s Research Development Committee.
A collection of images from Upstate, along with Xhenet Aliu’s foreword to the book, were recently published on Hudson River Stories, a website created by Jon Bowermaster featuring content about the Hudson River by photographers, filmmakers, writers, activists and environmentalists.
Selections from American Stills and Upstate were recently featured in an article, Rural America: Photography as Cultural Narrative, written by CJ Dansdill for Musée Magazine along with work by photographers Todd Hido, Jon Horvath, Seph Lawless and Gregory Crewdson.
Two images from UPSTATE are included in Coined in the South at the Mint Museum Uptown in Charlotte, NC on view from October 10, 2019 – February 16, 2020. This group exhibition of work in various media by artists working in and/or from the Southeast is hosted by The Young Affiliates in collaboration with the museum.