In Conversation with Pete Candler | A Deeper South
Thu, Jul 18
|Ocean Springs


Time & Location
Jul 18, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Ocean Springs, 510 Washington Ave, Ocean Springs, MS 39564, USA
About The Event
WAMA Director Julian Rankin moderates a conversation and presentation with author and photographer Pete Candler, whose book, A Deeper South: The Beauty, Mystery, and Sorrow of the Southern Road, investigates the complexity and magnetism of the Southern landscape. Free admission; books available for purchase.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
In A Deeper South: The Beauty, Mystery, and Sorrow of the Southern Road, Pete Candler offers a travel narrative drawn from twenty-five years of road-tripping through the backroads of the American South. Featuring Candler's own photography, the book taps into the public imagination and the process of both remembering and forgetting that define our collective memory of place. Candler, who belongs to one of Georgia's most recognizable families, confronts the uncomfortable truths of his own ancestors' roles in the South's legacy of white supremacy with a masterful mix of authority and a humbling sense that his own journey of unforgetting and recovering has only just…