High & LonesomeFor much of the last decade, working from his home base of Fairfield, Illinois, Nathan Pearce has produced a series of mostly low fi zines and books rooted in a tender and obsessive investigation of place. It's been apparent from the beginning that Pearce is invested in the rural southern midwest and the people who live there, and he has succeeded in finding in that place a world as interesting and exotic as anything a bored Midwestern kid would

South Central is one of a trilogy originally published between 2007-2009 and re-released in 2020

He agreed to drive her out to Maravilla Park and make introductions to members of the local gang

"I am writing this note while you’re still asleep

but the focus of his work is the extraordinary relationships the people of the Arctic have developed with their extreme environment

Akin to the documentary style of 1960s-era New Journalism made famous by writers such as Hunter S

They are not only able to see the bliss of an animal enjoying the sunlight but to share in it

the first retrospective of his work

Stashing her camera and tape recorder in her mop bucket

Christopher Anderson began photographing his family in a completely organic way

She volunteers weekly at the Gowanus Darkroom

such as Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind

Without resorting to cliches or stereotypes