Photography

Blue Magnolia | Visual Art

by TNSF | Jan 15, 2020 | Photography, Visual Art, Vol. 3, Issue 4

Blue Magnolia This is a manipulated photograph. After publishing three novels, I turned to making pictures seven years ago when I began to experience vision problems that prevented me from reading or writing except for very brief stretches. I fell in love with the...

Joy | Photography

by TNSF | Sep 11, 2019 | Photography, Vol. 2, Issue 22

Joy Taken in the northern suburbs of Atlanta, GA, this portrait uses a wide-open aperture to remove the one branch and the subject from the rest of the forest. To me, this photographic isolation represents an experience of growing up in the South as a person of color...

Entrapment | Photography

by TNSF | Apr 24, 2019 | Photography, Vol. 2, Issue 12

Entrapment Morgan Stephenson’s current body of work focuses on the relationship with her paternal grandmother and its continuance after her death. She reexamines memories and emotions through archival imagery, familial heirlooms and storytelling from a personal...

Discarded | Photography

by TNSF | Apr 10, 2019 | Photography, Vol. 2, Issue 11

Discarded This photo is a part of my photo series, Aftermath. Aftermath focuses on the damage and destruction caused to the North Carolina coast following Hurricane Florence. Low income communities are having an even harder time recovering. (Click on the image for a...

Girl With Camera, No. 25 | Photography

by TNSF | Mar 13, 2019 | Best of Volume 2, Photography, Vol. 2, Issue 9

Girl With Camera, No. 25 When I hold my camera, I hold my world as a creator of stories and dreams. Once, only men were allowed to create. I’m hyper-aware of past (and current) constraints, but I don’t care. I create anyway. As a native Virginian, I have...

Red Room | Photography

by TNSF | Jan 2, 2019 | Photography, Vol. 2, Issue 4

Red Room Grosse Isle, Quebec, Canada Modern visitors to Grosse Isle, a former quarantine island turned state park, can see the red room, where patients with smallpox were held in the belief that less exposure to sunlight would increase survival rates and decrease...