Celebrating Photography of the Rural South
September 19 - 28, 2008
Pike County, Georgia
"Savvy Exposures" - The SlowExposures photo-exhibition has become anything but slow as it already has passed its toddler years and stands tall at 5 years old. Organized by a savvy group of sourthern dolls to put preservation of cultural style and life back on the map when Google-Earth promotes another message about being "close to home". The competition is strengthened by a mix of amateur and professional photographers whose visions of southern life show diversity of interest that range from sweet smelling landscapes to mysterious deserted architectural gems; home life is often outdoor life and captures individual charachters' faces and gestures of Southern charm or depict the latest family feud. SlowExposures is an opportunity that presents photographing the South can be more than "makin' perty pictures" but a quest of discovering who and what we really are, and sometimes what we were.
Celina Lunsford, Jury Member 2005
Frankfurt, Germany
February 2007
SlowExposures, the nationally recognized photography exhibition that underscores the diversity, contradictions and complexity of the rural South, opens Friday, September 19, 2008, for two weekends in the picturesque town of Concord, Georgia. The sixth anniversary of the photography showcase will be held in the historic 1887 R.F. Strickland Building, a late nineteenth century mercantile store listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Pike County, fifty miles south of Atlanta.
SlowExposures opens on Friday, September 19, followed by a benefit gala dinner/dance/auction on September 20. The six-day exhibit continues on September 21, 26, 27 and 28, with a BBQ picnic on Saturday, September 27, hosted by the Pike County Arts Council. The second weekend of SlowExposures recognizes “Kids with Cameras” with a children's exhibit and reception and salutes young people’s interest in photography.
www.slowexposures.org
