The New South Project: The Evolution of an Idea

Brooke White's talks will focus on the evolution of the New South Project beginning with her move to the Mississippi Delta in 2004. For over a decade she has lived and photographed throughout the global south investigating how water, oil, expansion, and agriculture, have come to shape people’s relationship to place and its effect on identity. This decade long photographic project focuses on making transnational comparisons in regions throughout the Global South to connect local and regional landscapes to international ones, emphasizing the interconnectedness of them.

Brooke White is both a practicing artist and educator specializing in photography and video art. She received her MFA from Cornell University and BFA from Alfred University, School of Art & Design. White has exhibited her photographs and videos nationally and internationally including the Hammer Museum, Mississippi Museum of Art and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. She was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in India and is a recipient of numerous Mississippi Arts Council Individual artist grants. Her work has been published in Aint Bad Magazine and the Oxford American mand is included in the Do Good Fund collection. mFor two decades White has made work about the landscape. She sees it as a space that reflects much of what is taking place within the world, both on a macro and micro level. The conceptual framework of her projects is consistently driven by the politics of place, memory and time, and the role they play in establishing identity. White resides in Oxford, MS where she is Chair, Professor of Art, Area Head and founder of the Imaging Arts area in the Department of Art & Art History. She also serves as affiliate faculty in the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies and Digital Media and Cinema minors at the University of Mississippi.