A choice of photos from Chicago-based photographer Judson Womack. Womack acquired his BFA in Artwork from Davidson Faculty in 2018 and is at the moment engaged on his MFA in Pictures from Columbia Faculty Chicago. Knowledgeable by his upbringing in Jackson, Mississippi, Womack’s work explores the conceptions (and misconceptions) of the up to date Deep South and its complicated relationship to the bigger American consciousness. “Lay Us Down” chronicles the convergence of two trajectories — one private and the opposite political. Shortly after his Grandmother’s a hundredth birthday, 1,000 Jackson kids recognized with lead poisoning sued town for many years of negligence. Womack’s household embarks on a journey to bury his grandmother within the Mississippi Delta “amidst a humanitarian disaster born from traditions of environmental racism”:
“These photos type a meditation on adherence and mortality in a spot the place adherence may signify an act in opposition to 1’s personal wellbeing; just like the Southern traditions my grandmother practiced that I too have been socialized to carry shut; that inevitably laid the foundations for well being dangers her kids and their kids should now take care of each day.”
See extra photos from “Lay Us Down” beneath.