Andrea Morales : Roll Down Like Water Photography and Movement Journalism in the American South - Rosamund Garrett - Paul Holberton - broché - Beau livre

This vibrant catalogue showcases a decade’s work by Memphis-based Peruvian- American photographer Andrea Morales (b. 1984), whose camera sympathetically delves into community life and activism in the American South. It accompanies her first major exhibition at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, represents the first scholarly publication on her work, and the first major museum exhibition dedicated to movement journalism. The unofficial capital of the Mississippi Delta, Memphis, Tennessee, has long been a place bubbling with activism and social movements. Roll Down Like Water - a nod to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s iconic last speech in the city in support of the 1968 Sanitation Workers’ Strike - shows Andrea Morales’s incredible ability to engage with her subjects, in Memphis and the surrounding region, through the lens. From intimate portraits and records of daily life to the documentation of social and environmental movements with local and national resonance, her photography builds a