Photo credit: Thomas Drysdale
On February 19, 2020 at Strand Bookstore in Manhattan, photographer and alum of the Department of Photography & Imaging at NYU Tisch Jessica Ingram discussed her recently published book, Road Through Midnight (UNC Press), with the chair of the department Dr. Deborah Willis. From the book's publisher:
At first glance, Jessica Ingram’s landscape photographs could have been made nearly anywhere in the American South: a fenced-in backyard, a dirt road lined by overgrowth, a field grooved with muddy tire prints. These seemingly ordinary places, however, were the sites of pivotal events during the civil rights era, though often there is not a plaque with dates and names to mark their importance. Many of these places are where the bodies of activists, mill workers, store owners, sharecroppers, children and teenagers were murdered or found, victims of racist violence. Images of these places are interspersed with oral histories from victims’ families and investigative journalists, as well as pages from newspapers and FBI files and other ephemera.
Road Through Midnight is currently available for purchase and is also available to NYU students at the DPI Library (read-in only).