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Strant conducted A Brief Interview with Adele Watts ( @adelewatts ) www.strantmag.com/briefinterview To submit for an interview use the contact button on our IG profile or tag a post @strantmagazine #strantopencall and we'll take a look at the work on your IG feed. #memory #family
Strant recently reviewed Sad Things by @rachaelcbanks www.strantmag.com/review To submit a photobook for review use the contact button on our Instagram profile or tag a post @strantmagazine #strantopencall and we'll take a look at your feed. #sadthings #photobookfriday #memory
Overgrown South www.shaunhkellyphoto.com/overgrown
Perhaps more than any other region of the U.S., the South attempts to define itself, preserve its culture, and claim its relevance. Southern writer Willie Morris said that, “to understand the world, William Faulkner once said, you have to understand a place like Mississippi.” Faulkner’s portion of Morris’s quote has since been pulled from context and we are left with a perhaps misquoted William Faulkner as having said, “To understand the world, you have to understand a place like Mississippi.” Visit Oxford, MS—the adopted hometown of William Faulkner—and you will encounter the quote or at least the notion. From bumper stickers sold in boutiques on The Square to Southerners quoting it as summative insight, the quote considers the South as a prerequisite to contemporary America. The fact that Faulkner might not have ever actually uttered the words does however get at what might be most true of the South—The South makes itself and its past what it needs to be in order to remain relevant.
For the non-Southerner the South and its past is mysterious—an antiquated cultural landscape. For Southerners, the South’s past is a source of pride—a better time than the present. What one might see as dilapidation another might see as preservation, racism a misunderstanding, and poverty an embrace of a simpler life. A more nuanced truth is that for better or worse, the contemporary feels more mundane and less significant than the past.
The South is not just dilapidation and poverty. It does however exist in tense relationship to the former self that a weathered house or bail of cotton can so easily conjure. If the South cannot rid its past, it has certainly embraced it as being unique. In The New Mind of the South, Tracy Thompson writes, “if Southerners made a big deal about feeling different it’s because in a very literal sense we were.” Thompson goes on to say that this is because the South is a culture built upon the constant need to amend itself while maintaining values rooted in decency. These are constant qualities of the South that weather racism, poverty, and huge shifts in the demographic makeup of the region while sometimes contradicting itself or not getting the intricacies quite right. If the South makes an effort to distinguish itself from a most difficult past, then to reconcile that past in relation to the present permeates Southern identity.
Like a misattributed quote, the photographs in Overgrown South are perhaps not exactly as things truly are but at the same time point to a certain truth. They consider the tension between the South of the past, a contemporary South, and how it is often portrayed in a broader culture. If they are slightly mundane, it is because like a stereotype, they are vaguely recognizable as something familiar. The American South as portrayed in these photographs—like the effort prevalent to the region—is perpetually overgrown by the past, again and again manifest by the necessity of change.
PREORDER DISCOUNT NOW THROUGH 08/01/16 (11:59PM CST) www.strantmag.com/familyfaithfood
Family Faith Food is a culmination of three online issues from Strant Magazine published over the course of 2015. Each issue considered family, faith, and food individually. Family Faith Food coalesces the three online issue into one print publication and reconsiders how the three topics inform one another. Featured is the work of 27 photographers along with essays, photobook discussions, and interviews.
Contributors: @saleemahmed, Sophie Barbasch, @samanthabelden, Aaron Canipe, Evelyn Cervantes, Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman, @saraclarken, @willwdoug, Jon Feinstein, Makenzie Goodman, @minusminusisplus, Amanda Greene, Jesse Groves, @samanthaharthoorn, Dave Hebb, Shaun H. Kelly, @johnathonkelso, @nataliekrick, Ian Mahathey, @tinytinybirds, John & Emily O’Connor, @nathanpearce, Bradley Peters, Anacleto Rapping, @aaronturnerphoto, Milly West, Kay Westhues, Joel Whitaker, Brooke White, @tarawray
A possible inclusion to a currently ongoing and untitled project. www.shaunhkellyphoto.com/untitled #southern #identity #kodak #darkroomguide
Strant conducted A Brief Interview with Michael Adno ( @mikeadno ) www.strantmag.com/briefinterview To submit for an interview go to www.strantmag.com/contact or tag a post @strantmagazine #strantopencall and we'll take a look at the work on your IG feed. #crackerpolitics #southernheritage #confederateflag
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"Within a static image, photography allows the freedom to move expressively with room to wander, to seek, and to speculate & surmise. Not to a goal, but space within a frame. And with that photography creates contradictions and compliments. This is simply perspective. Photography never supposes anything other than what is within the frame. It is what we bring to the conversation that allows for these contradictions and compliments, this dialogue. I do not believe photography is complete without a place to begin, a place to go, and a place to return." -@shaun_h_kelly #moonday #moonlanding #onthisday #apollo11 [Photo: "One of the first steps taken on the Moon, this is an image of Buzz Aldrin's bootprint from the Apollo 11 mission. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon on July 20, 1969." Photo Credit: NASA]
#PhotoOfTheDay by @jwhitaker1515 which will be included in the forthcoming Strant Print Publication - Family Faith Food set to be released August 2016 #family #faith #food #fffstrant #medjugorje #apparition
Southern Glossary, Issue #2 - Ryan Sparks & Brit Hessler (Eds.)
“Southern Glossary #2 ( @southernglossary ) is in a full-size magazine format and features the work of 20 artists from Nashville to Tallahassee and Atlanta to Lafayette. Includes two essays by Ryan Sparks and Brit Hessler and a new cover by Artemis Antippas. Full color, perfect bound, 48 pages. Also available as a digital download.”
A possible inclusion to a currently ongoing and untitled project. www.shaunhkellyphoto.com/untitled #southern #identity #kudzu (at Lafayette County)
Strant conducted A Brief Interview with Zora J. Murff ( @zorajmurff ) www.strantmag.com/briefinterview To submit for an interview got to www.strantmag.com/contact or tag a post @strantmagazine #strantopencall and we'll take a look at the work on your IG feed. #corrections #justice #criminal #citizen (at Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
#PhotoOfTheDay by @nattynattynatnatnat which will be included in the forthcoming Strant Print Publication - Family Faith Food set to be released August 2016 #family #faith #food
#PhotoOfTheDay by @elmaurygee which will be included in the forthcoming Strant Print Publication - Family Faith Food set to be released August 2016 #family #faith #food
#PhotoOfTheDay by @samanthabelden which will be included in the forthcoming Strant Print Publication - Family Faith Food set to be released August 2016 #family #faith #food #fffstrant
#PhotoOfTheDay by @sophiebarbasch which will be included in the forthcoming Strant Print Publication - Family Faith Food set to be released August 2016 #family #faith #food #fffstrant
