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Southbound: Keith Calhoun & Chandra McCormick

Date

Oct 01 2019

Time

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Location

Power Plant Gallery

320 Blackwell St, American Tobacco Campus, Durham, NC

Keith Calhoun & Chandra McCormick

Artist Talk: Keith Calhoun & Chandra McCormick

Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South

Artist talk with Keith Calhoun & Chandra McCormick. Moderated by Courtney Reid-Eaton. Join us as Courtney Reid-Eaton, exhibitions director for the Center for Documentary Studies and director of the Documentary Diversity Project, leads a discussion with New Orleans-based photographers Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick on their work in documenting African American experience around the city and the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the community and their own archives. A light reception will follow.

About the Event Series

Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South is presented by the Power Plant Gallery in collaboration with Duke’s Forum for Scholars and Publics and the Gregg Museum of Art & Design at North Carolina State University. In this iteration, guest curator Randall Kenan, author and NC native, organizes the many framed photographs of the exhibition around the twin themes of Flux, on display at the Power Plant Gallery, and Home, on display at the Gregg Museum. The full program of events includes slow tours, film screenings, “Sit + Chat” sessions, and FSP@PPG panel discussions that engage with the issues in and around the works of art and explore the topics, places, and styles of Southbound. Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South was organized by the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston School of the Arts in Charleston, South Carolina, and curated by Mark Long and Mark Sloan. Visit the exhibit online at southboundproject.org.

Related Coverage

“The ideas and problems which have dogged the South from the beginning are still afoot: race and the legacy of slavery; the bloody blunder that was secession and the Civil War; a powerful fondness for Jesus and the Protestant religion; a particular food culture tied directly to the agricultural bounty that sprang from that very landscape.” —Randall Kenan, quoted in Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Forum Online

“Before you start, know what you’re trying to achieve with the photo. Have a goal in mind, and think through what you need to do to get there.” —Titus Brooks Heagins, quoted in Titus Brooks Heagins Visits DSA, Forum Online

“McNair Evans produces choreographed works. He orchestrates photos after establishing relationships with his subjects, giving him the ability to capture images of vulnerable moments.” —Cydney Livingston, Photography as Choreography: Confessions for a Son, Forum Online

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