Description
Capturing the rich contrasts of the land and the intimate history of generations in the Mississippi Delta, Into the Flatland, by Kathleen Robbins, is a series of photographs documenting the terrain, people, and culture of her ancestry. In this series Robbins highlights the diversity of the landscape of the Delta, from expansive, dusty cotton fields to green, vibrant swamps.
Kathleen Robbins is an associate professor of art, the photography program coordinator, and an affiliate faculty of southern studies at the University of South Carolina, USA. Her photographs have been exhibited at the New Orleans Photo Alliance, the Light Factory Museum of Contemporary Photography & Film, the John Michael Kohler Art Center, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and the Southeast Museum of Photography. Her work has been featured in Fraction Magazine, Flak Photo, Conscientious, Humble Arts New York, NPR’s Picture Show, Oxford American, and Garden and Gun. She is represented by the Rebekah Jacob Gallery in Charleston, USA. In 2012 Robbins was part of the Critical Mass Top 50 as selected by Photolucida and she was the recipient of the 2011 PhotoNOLA Review Prize. She is Associate Professor of Art at the University of South Carolina.
Cynthia Shearer is a National Endowment for the Arts recipient.
A photographer, filmmaker, and folklorist, Tom Rankin has been documenting and interpreting American culture for nearly twenty years. He is a professor in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies and director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, USA.