Artifacts

Image credit: Installation view. Artifacts, March 2016, BRAHM.

March 2016

Artifacts explores Lou Murrey’s use of photography as a method to collect and preserve interactions, traditions, and histories within a cultural landscape and documentary photography in Appalachia. The photographs serve as narrative windows into the everyday lives of people living in the Appalachian Mountains, while being mindful of the legacy of documentary photography within the region. Murrey uses the medium to explore a need to collect traditions, stories, and relationships within my community and protect them against the destructiveness of time.