Titus Brooks Heagins’ neighborhood watch
April 10, 2009 at 9:45 am by Cinque Hicks in Events, Visual Arts
WISE GUY: "Devonte"
Every city has its communities that the local tourism impresarios would rather visitors not know about. (Summerhill, anyone?) Photographer Titus Brooks Heagins captures Durham, N.C.’s disowned area of East Durham in Durham Stories: Not Hell But You Can See It from Here, currently on view at Composition Gallery. The result is a trenchant living document of a community both entirely unique and utterly ordinary situated in the heart of a Southern landscape.
Durham Stories comprises five large-format color digital prints and a series of eight smaller ones. The photographs portray East Durham residents, usually in isolation, sometimes in a pair or trio. The subjects range from toddler-aged Devonte to way-over-the-hill Leon, whose weary lines and creases testify to a lifetime of grief.
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