Both images below are part of the student exhibition The View from Here.
Untitled, by English Grant
Artist’s Statement: English Grant is a senior
at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C.,
working to receive her Bachelor’s of Fine
Arts in Photography. In her work, she is
constantly pushing the boundaries of the
ordinary, using everyday subject matter
to create images that are wholly unique
and unexpected. In this series she expands
on this idea, creating images along the
pathways that she travels literally every day.
Instead of stepping off the beaten path, she
finds that the bigger challenge is to find the
beauty within it.
On Christmas day everything passed off peaceably with the exception of a difficulty between Mr. Joe
Bailey and Mr. George Childs in which the latter received a severe cut to the neck, by David Mcgowan
Artist’s Statement: David Mcgowan
is a senior USC photography major.
His work explores the consequences
of change by contrasting the reality of
today with the reality of the past. The
textile industry came to South Carolina
in the late 1800s, and by harnessing the
power of our rivers, brought thousands
of jobs to the state, ushering in an era of
change, modernization, and prosperity.
The Piedmont was once a madhouse
of whirring machinery and rapid
construction. With Mills came Railroads,
and with Railroads came Modernity. The
decline of the domestic textile industry and
the eventual shut down of the mill changed
everything.
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