Artist: Alex Harris

Project: Our Strange New Land: Photographs by Alex Harris

Description: In the latest exhibition for its Picturing the South project, Atlanta’s High Museum of Art presents Our Strange New Land: Photographs by Alex Harris. Taken over the course of two years and encompassing most of the South, Harris’s series documents independent film sets, exploring “how the region is seen, imagined, and created by contemporary visual storytellers.”

The photographs consist primarily of portraits, but, as the museum cites, these images capture “both the scenes constructed for film productions and the activity that unfolded around and adjacent to the sets, often blurring the lines between staged storytelling and real-life....Though he leaves clues, Harris never fully reveals which pictures are contrived for the cinema and which are documentary happenstance.”

Our Strange New Land debuts more than sixty new works by Alex Harris and is on display at the High Museum until May 3, 2020. Find the full details here.

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  Alex Harris (American, born 1949), Abducted in Waxhaw, North Carolina, 2018, pigmented inkjet print. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, commissioned with funds from the H.B. and Doris Massey Charitable Trust and the Picturing the South Fund. © Alex Harris.

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  Alex Harris (American, born 1949), And the People Could Fly in Columbia, South Carolina, 2018, pigmented inkjet print. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, commissioned with funds from the H.B. and Doris Massey Charitable Trust and the Picturing the South Fund. © Alex Harris.

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  Alex Harris (American, born 1949), And the People Could Fly in Columbia, South Carolina, 2018, pigmented inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist. © Alex Harris.

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  Alex Harris (American, born 1949), Thunder Road in Austin, Texas, 2017, pigmented inkjet print. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, commissioned with funds from the H.B. and Doris Massey Charitable Trust and the Picturing the South Fund. © Alex Harris.

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  Alex Harris (American, born 1949), Liberty in Miami, Florida, 2018, pigmented inkjet print. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, commissioned with funds from the H.B. and Doris Massey Charitable Trust and the Picturing the South Fund. © Alex Harris.

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  Alex Harris (American, born 1949), Liberty in Miami, Florida, 2018, pigmented inkjet print. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, commissioned with funds from the

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  Alex Harris (American, born 1949), The Funeral Band in New Orleans, Louisiana, 2018, pigmented inkjet print. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, commissioned with funds from the H.B. and Doris Massey Charitable Trust and the Picturing the South Fund. © Alex Harris.

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  Alex Harris (American, born 1949), The Astronomers in Rock Hill, South Carolina, 2018, pigmented inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist. © Alex Harris.

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  Alex Harris (American, born 1949), Miner’s Mountain in Wilmington, North Carolina, 2017, pigmented inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist. © Alex Harris.

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  Alex Harris (American, born 1949), Miner’s Mountain in Wilmington, North Carolina, 2017, pigmented inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist. © Alex Harris.

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  Alex Harris (American, born 1949), Greener Grass in Gay, Georgia, 2018, pigmented inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist. © Alex Harris.

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  Alex Harris (American, born 1949), Greener Grass in Gay, Georgia, 2018, pigmented inkjet print. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, commissioned with funds from the H.B. and Doris Massey Charitable Trust and the Picturing the South Fund. © Alex Harris.

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  Alex Harris (American, born 1949), Doodle in Livingston, Alabama, 2018, pigmented inkjet print. © Alex Harris.

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  Alex Harris (American, born 1949), Doodle in Livingston, Alabama, 2018, pigmented inkjet print. © Alex Harris.

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  Alex Harris (American, born 1949), Graceland in Charleston, South Carolina, 2018, pigmented inkjet print. © Alex Harris.

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  Alex Harris (American, born 1949), Handsome in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 2018, pigmented inkjet print. © Alex Harris.

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Eyes on the South&\#xA0;is curated by&\#xA0;Jeff Rich. The weekly series features selections of current work from Southern artists, or artists whose photography concerns the South. To submit your work to the series, email Jeff.