Currently on display at the Denise Heinly Art Center on the ChattState campus (OMN building) are photographs by Tema Stauffer titled Southern Fiction. From 2018-2021 Tema Stauffer made road trips to Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to shoot large format photographs of settings associated with many Southern fiction writers such as Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, and more. The photographs were published in a book, Southern Fiction, and the pictures on display in the DHAC come from the book.
The library had a display of the book titles from the writers explored by Stauffer's photographs.
Richard Wright books surrounded Stauffer's picture of Wright's boyhood home in Natchez, MS.
More pictures from the book display include:
Some of the many photographs that can be viewed in the DHAC in the OMNI building until December 12, 2025 include a picture of a horse barn owned by Flannery O'Connor; the muddy drive to the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Rodney, MS; a winding red clay road in Perdue Hill, Alabama; gas station pumps in Gosport, AL; and Eudora Welty's armchair.
Check out a southern fiction book from the KLIC Library. Check out the photographic display in the DHAC until December 12, 2025.
