Comments on: ‘Not Hell’ but you can see it from Composition Gallery http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2009/03/24/not-hell-but-you-can-see-it-from-composition-gallery/ Your hourly source for arts and entertainment news, features and commentary in Atlanta and beyond. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:17:24 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Caitlin http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2009/03/24/not-hell-but-you-can-see-it-from-composition-gallery/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Caitlin Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:40:16 +0000 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/?p=746#comment-38 As with any artist Titus Brooks Heagins wants to tell a particular story. He openly shares these photographs are seeped in the idea of Southern poverty. Did any of the people in his portraits know the book’s title? His title doesn’t lead me to think the people “take pride in the place they call home.” From the Composition Gallery write-up: “He doesn't ask them to pose, but simply photographs them as he finds them, allowing their postures, their expressions, and their eyes to help capture the truth of who they are.” I have not seen the exhibit and the images on the gallery page are haunting but I am suspicious of whose truth is really exposed in the photographs… As with any artist Titus Brooks Heagins wants to tell a particular story. He openly shares these photographs are seeped in the idea of Southern poverty. Did any of the people in his portraits know the book’s title? His title doesn’t lead me to think the people “take pride in the place they call home.”

From the Composition Gallery write-up:

“He doesn’t ask them to pose, but simply photographs them as he finds them, allowing their postures, their expressions, and their eyes to help capture the truth of who they are.”

I have not seen the exhibit and the images on the gallery page are haunting but I am suspicious of whose truth is really exposed in the photographs…

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