Jared Ragland: What Has Been Will Be Again
Jared Ragland
In fall 2020, we supported the production of 18 short-term visual projects responding to stories and issues related to the 2020 US elections. We aimed to publish each project in an effort to offer expanded perspectives on our current social and political realities through the lenses of creative and diverse image makers around the country.
Published this month, Jared Ragland’s portfolio traces Hernando de Soto’s 1540 expedition through Alabama, bearing witness to the state's troublesome legacies of injustice, revealing a haunting yet tender look at his home’s difficult past and tenuous present.
See more in the Virginia Quarterly Review.
“It’s a complicated place, simultaneously beautiful and horrifying—full of instances where the abject and beautiful mysteriously intersect.”