“The hollers of Appalachia are filled with a very specific kind of energy.” That’s what Guggenheim-winning photographer Kristine Potter told me when we first spoke about Dark Waters, her multilayered photography project that examines the Southern landscape, murder ballads and violence toward women with startling nuance. By combining lush, moody, highly detailed landscape photography with studio portraits, Potter shows how photography can be both representational and evocative — how it can at once conceal and clarify, sometimes within the same frame. Work from Dark Waters is currently on display at Sewanee University, and Potter will speak about the project on Thursday in Sewanee’s Guerry Auditorium. Anyone interested in photography, true crime, country music, women’s rights or Southern history would be smart to attend.
Artist talk 5 p.m. at Guerry Auditorium; through Oct. 14 at the University Art Gallery
735 University Ave., Sewanee
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