Snapshot: Climate with Southern Cultures Journal
Snapshot: Climate with Southern Cultures Journal
Wednesday, November 15th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom
Climate change is rapidly transforming our world in ways both visible and invisible. Making the invisible visible is at the core of Southern Cultures’ newest issue Snapshot: Climate. Featuring more than 60 photographs, this moving and inspiring issue weaves images and words into a complex conversation that offers a deep, diverse, and embodied look at climate impacts through a personal, local and regional lens.
Join us for a multifaceted conversation with Executive Editor, Ayşe Erginer and Art Director & Deputy Editor, Emily Wallace as they take us through their curatorial and editorial process. Additionally, they will be sharing why, in addition to the journal, they created an accompanying Snapshot: Climate exhibition and in-depth lesson plans that will travel to community colleges around the country.
Ayşe and Emily will also be joined by contributing photographers including:
Virginia Hanusik @ginnyhanusik
Lisette Morales McCabe @lisette_morales
Anna Gage Norton @annanortonphoto
Together we will explore new ways for our photographs and photographic projects to have more reach and impact in the world.
Explore the online version of Snapshot: Climate here.
Ayşe Erginer is the executive editor of Southern Cultures, an award-winning peer-reviewed quarterly published by UNC Press. Previous work in television, documentary film, and women’s media informs her avocational interests and creative work, including serving as a portfolio reviewer for the Click! Photography Festival and as a creative consultant to visual artists. (Website forthcoming!)
Emily Wallace is art director and deputy editor at Southern Cultures quarterly (UNC Press). She is also a freelance writer and illustrator. Her first book, Road Sides: An Illustrated Companion to Dining and Driving in the American South, was published by the University of Texas Press in 2019.
Southern Cultures is an award-winning, peer-reviewed quarterly of the history, arts, and cultures of the US South, published by UNC Press for the Center for the Study of the American South, where it is housed. Interdisciplinary and art-forward, it is unusual among scholarly journals for also reaching a popular audience. The plural “cultures” in their name recognizes a region of many peoples, histories, memories, and interpretations. Contributors include Bancroft, National Book Award, Pulitzer, Peabody, PEN America, James Beard, and Best American Comics winners, as well as leading artists, photographers, and political figures. Southern Cultures has readers around the world in more than 80 countries (and counting).
Virginia Hanusik | Port Eads Lighthouse, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 2020
Lisette Morales McCabe | Betty Osceola prays in the waters of the Everglades, Florida, 2021
Jenny Adler | Florida manatees swim in a freshwater spring along the Santa Fe River, High Springs, Florida, 2019.
Anna Gage Norton | After the storm, Ichawaynochaway Creek, Baker County, Georgia, 2020
