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Spring 2022 Documentary Showcase

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  • Spring 2022 Documentary Showcase

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The Documentary Showcase is a celebration of the work created by Southern Studies documentary students. This semester’s showcase takes place April 28 in the Barnard Observatory Tupelo Room. Each artist will present samples of their work followed by a panel discussion and questions from the audience. For more on each artist and to see their final projects (when available) click the links below.

Click below to EXPERIENCE the work 

Lily-Pearl Benn| Toccopola Grocery  (photography)

Lucy Gaines | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Fag (short film)

John Macon Gillespie | Vardaman, Mississippi: A Cultural ‘Melting Pot’ in the Sweet Potato Capital of the World (photography)

Christina Huff | Big Clown (short film) and The Creamery (photography)

Greta Koshenina | Grapefruit Boys (short film) and Baggage (photography)

Marina Leigh | Abandoned: A Photographic Series in Conversation with Micro Essays on Home, Loss, Deterioration, Haunting, and Love (photography)

Sandip Rai | Andrew Bryant (short film) and Active Oxford (photography)

Jai Williams | In My Grandmother’s Footsteps (short film)
and Black Hands, Black Land (photography)

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