Exhibitions

PICTURING HOME: DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY BY NASHVILLE RESIDENTS

Reset Room / 507 Hagan St. October 5, 2019 - October 5, 2019

Edgehill Brighter Days Photo Walks (12 youth photographers, 9 artist mentors, organized by DaShawn Lewis)

Pikes Project (Joe Nolan)

Not New Nashville (Jennifer Bair)

These photographs of Nashville, by its residents, give close attention to the place, favoring familiarity and feeling over style and technique. They recall several traditional, overlapping functions of photography. They are factual records of places in time, variously nostalgic links to memories and ideas of the past, and potential tools to visualize change, build community, and express values — like what home means to people. These projects focus on commercial zones and residential communities important to many long-time Nashvillians, but ignored or jeopardized by the city’s drive to court tourism, new residents, and corporations.

Edgehill Brighter Days Photo Walks: 12 kids (aided by 9 mentors) tell us about their neighborhood – using 35mm film cameras! Edgehill Brighter Days is an after school program sponsored by Edgehill United Methodist. Photo Walk Creator/Organizer DaShawn Lewis is himself an alumnus of the Edgehill Brighter Days after school program, and coordinates the Photo Walks with his former teacher and EBD’s longtime Director, Nancy Crutcher, along with numerous artist volunteers.