September 2009 theme – “drifting in deep waters”

/ “Men adrift, especially in northern latitudes, sometimes imagine they can see things which are not there, such as smoke, sails, ships or land. This is a form of mirage, the same phenomenon that occurs in the desert, and if you experience it, it does not mean that you are out of your mind or even light-headed.”

– Office of Naval Intelligence, from Survival on Land and Sea, 1943

/ Deep Water : Portishead

I’m drifting in deep waters
alone with my self doubting again
I try not to struggle this time
for I will weather the storm
I gotta remember
don’t fight it
even if I
don’t like it
somehow turn me around
no matter how far I drift
deep waters won’t scare me tonight

* curated by James Luckett

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The southern states of America function between a dichotomy of myth and the unctuous reality of land and people soaked with history and tradition.
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The photographs are largely indebted to a tradition of 1970’s color photography, and certainly mines some of the pivotal fundamental formal, and societal questions that were asked during that period. Many of these issues seem to have arisen again in our post-millenial communities.

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