#EyesOntheSouth
April 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | Katrina Remembered | Clarence Williams

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Clarence Williams documents the impact of Hurricane Katrina as a survivor, intimately detailing the harsh realities faced by communities in New Orleans.

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August 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | The Katrina Decade | David G. Spielman

From the archive: 10 years of New Orleans landscape documentation, resurfaced for the OA's Hurricane Katrina: 20 Years After the Storm retrospective.

🔗: https://shorturl.at/lvQqs
August 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | Skipping Sundays | @heatherevanssmith.bsky.social

In this photo essay, Smith explores the isolation that comes with being a doubter of the faith in a devoted Southern community.

🔗: https://shorturl.at/bLv9N
June 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | Craft and Subtlety | Maude Schuyler Clay

—Pulled from the archive, color portraits by Maude Schuyler Clay from her 2015 book “Mississippi History.”

🔗: https://shorturl.at/6Gzac
October 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | Absolute Music | Tracy Anne Hart

Wishing you were at the Austin City Limits Music Festival this weekend? Hart captures portraits from the Live Music Capital of the World spanning more than four decades in this #EyesontheSouth feature

🔗: https://shorturl.at/biT8l
October 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
#EyesOntheSouth | Dollar House | David Fowler

After purchasing a four-room house rotting on skids for a dollar, David Fowler captured his dive into the timeless small-town wonders that came with it.

🔗: https://oxfordamerican.org/eyes/dollar-house
April 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | Intruders in the Dirt | @cormackphotos.bsky.social

For fifteen years, Cormack has worked to draw attention to historic and neglected architecture of the Arkansas Delta with hopes of restoration, while facing the reality of its disappearance.

🔗: https://shorturl.at/phnNv
June 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | For Queer Kids | Peyton Fulford

In this feature from the archive, Peyton Fulford captures queer Southern youth through portraits that feel “suffused with the intensity and tenderness of personal experience.”

🔗: https://shorturl.at/XuFvl
June 18, 2026 at 3:01 PM
#EyesontheSouth | The Counterpoint | John Sanderson

From the archive, John Sanderson searches for aspirationalism, the “most primordial of American traits,” in towns that have lost their regional flair.

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December 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A “celebration of color” meant “to tell a story about a place and the relationship it has with its residents.”

See more of Amanda Greene’s 2019 #EyesOnTheSouth feature at the link below: oxfordamerican.org/eyes/color-c...
January 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“Photographer John Sanderson’s work acknowledges the loss of regional town flair while looking for that most primordial of American traits: aspirationalism.”

See more of this #EyesOnTheSouth feature from 2017 here: https://oxfordamerican.org/eyes/the-counterpoint
February 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | Pure Oil | @kccornell.bsky.social

Lafayette-based photographer Kristie Cornell documents the impact of neglect and illegal dumping on Louisiana’s Coastal Prairie.

🔗: https://shorturl.at/pdafM
July 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | Ghost Bird | Dason Pettit

In this feature from the archive, Pettit documents the “persistent existential crisis” embodied by the probable extinction of the ivory-billed woodpecker.

🔗: https://shorturl.at/oNuZo
August 27, 2026 at 10:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | Restore the Night Sky | Marni Shindelman

Shindelman captures long-exposure images that uncover the impact of ICE detention centers on the rural communities in which they inhabit.

🔗: https://shorturl.at/Njyib
July 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | A Story Behind Every Street | Patrick Wensink

In this feature from the archive, the bestselling author travels the alleys of Louisville, Kentucky, and captures buildings’ backsides, “where the true self is best seen.”

🔗: https://shorturl.at/2XC4Y
April 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | Strange Parallels | José Castrellón

In his series “Palindrome,” Panamanian artist José Castrellón explores the connection between Panama City, Florida, and his birth country, 3,400 miles south along the Caribbean Sea.

🔗: https://shorturl.at/QtvAi
July 23, 2026 at 9:30 PM
#EyesontheSouth | Ark-La-Tex | Cody Cobb

From the archive, photographer Cody Cobb captures scenes he “discovered while exploring dirt roads, abandonments, swamps, and pine forests of northwest Louisiana, east Texas, and south Arkansas.”

🔗: https://shorturl.at/X53Ib
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | The Kentuckian | James R. Southard

James Southard captures Kentucky’s workforce, county by county, to serve as a “. . .record and tribute to the dignity of labor in its many forms.”

🔗: https://shorturl.at/yKbU4
June 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | The Coast of Baton Rouge | William Greiner

Pulled from the archive, Greiner's photo series “Land’s End” serves as a projection of what Louisiana’s future coastline might look like after another catastrophic storm.

🔗: https://shorturl.at/zQCiK
September 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | Collective Identity | Keith Dannemiller

In this feature from the archive, Dannemiller captures the intersection of small-town Southern tradition with the evolving multicultural immigrant population in Wilson, North Carolina.

🔗: https://shorturl.at/d8u61
May 7, 2026 at 10:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | We Exist in South Carolina | Anthony Gansäuer

In this new feature, Gansäuer captures the queer landscape in South Carolina and documents “a generation of transgender Southerners negotiating identity, belonging, and visibility.”

https://shorturl.at/uA3sO
April 16, 2026 at 11:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | Pickled Memories | Adrian White

In this feature from the archive, White preserves his family’s history by suspending the photographs in mason jars with corn syrup, “capturing the ‘pickled memories’ in various settings.”

🔗: https://shorturl.at/a7dbI
February 13, 2026 at 12:00 AM
#EyesontheSouth | Florida Boys | Josh Aronson

In his five-year photographic project, Florida-based artist Aronson “broadens what boyhood can look like: gentle, vulnerable, and rooted in place.”

🔗: https://shorturl.at/Bhmpl
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | After the Word | Grace Ann Elinski

In this brand new feature, Elinski captures signage across Mississippi and Southern Louisiana that when removed from their original contexts become “weathered, contradictory, or quietly intimate.”

🔗: https://shorturl.at/zXoSd
March 5, 2026 at 6:00 PM