honorable mention
Peter Stitt united states
title
A Southern Verse
The small towns of this region exude a curious sense of pride and stoicism, mixed with hope and the obvious effects of a long, slow decline. With each passing year there are fewer and fewer who remember the glory days each town has enjoyed, but there is a present light that glimmers like faith.
The south is a region in whose every part the past is very much its present. These photographs do not criticize or mourn. They do not praise this landscape as if it were a rare and endangered place. They are a verse, an ode to a slowly fading present.
Working currently as a full-time artist, he produces images that reflect on the social landscape that composes our everyday environment. With influences from street photography and the New Topographics movement, his photography creates a narrative that answers and questions the curious nature of familiarity and that which is commonly ignored.
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entry description
Outside of the Atlantas, Charlottes, and Greenvilles, writing the narrative of the new south and its cultural change, the rural south unrolls. As present today as it has ever been, it, too, continues to move, obstinate in its defiance of the obvious currents that are leaving it further and further behind.The small towns of this region exude a curious sense of pride and stoicism, mixed with hope and the obvious effects of a long, slow decline. With each passing year there are fewer and fewer who remember the glory days each town has enjoyed, but there is a present light that glimmers like faith.
The south is a region in whose every part the past is very much its present. These photographs do not criticize or mourn. They do not praise this landscape as if it were a rare and endangered place. They are a verse, an ode to a slowly fading present.
about the photographer
Currently residing in North Augusta, SC, Peter Stitt is a photographer who has been exhibited nationally and internationally, from Portland, OR, to Budapest, Hungary. A graduate of Northeastern University, he has studied and honed his craft through teaching, commercial assisting, and gallery management.Working currently as a full-time artist, he produces images that reflect on the social landscape that composes our everyday environment. With influences from street photography and the New Topographics movement, his photography creates a narrative that answers and questions the curious nature of familiarity and that which is commonly ignored.
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