Southern Cultures
For more than a decade, I’ve served as Art Director & Deputy Editor at Southern Cultures. Below, find samples of work I’ve overseen.
A selection of recent covers.
Snapshot: Climate
Fall 2023 Issue + Traveling Exhibition
The Snapshot: Climate issue features more than sixty photographs and accompanying short reflections from artists, activists, photojournalists, and scientists to provide a “snapshot” look at climate impacts across the South. I developed a traveling exhibition featuring twenty-five photographs from the issue with support from the Mellon Foundation, Carolina Public Humanities, Virginia Folklife, the University of Mississippi, and additional partners. Find the full exhibition schedule here. (Photo by Jerry Greer)
“Making the invisible visible is at the core of this issue of [the journal]: using images and words from the contemporary South to show the ubiquity of climate change and how we all are experiencing the phenomenon. ”
A selection of illustrations commissioned for Southern Cultures.
A selection of recent articles I commissioned and edited for the journal.
I Might Need a New Story
by Jim Harrison
Online essay published after Hurricane Helene. Most-read web article of 2024.
“stay strong”
by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Online essay published on the heels of the 2024 election. Second most-read web article of 2024.
Essay by Jimmy Wright, with an introduction by John Corbett, from the Queer South issue (Spring 2025).
Conversation with Stacey Abrams and Valerie Boyd from the Left/Right issue (Fall 2019).
Sample video produced for SouthernCultures.org
Conversation with Ricky Moore from Saltbox Seafood Joint in conjunction with the Food: The Coast issue. Interview by Emily Wallace, filmed and edited by Jesse Paddock.
Header image by Jessica Fontenot