Honoring the 20-year history of the Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition in partnership with University Recreation, the Turchin Center is exhibiting artwork by six invited artists.
Jessica Maceda
“My work is a reflection of my love for the North Carolina High Country. It’s my hope that my photographs will inspire others to explore this amazing region. I want to show viewers the incredible beauty that can be found in the High Country and share with them my appreciation for the mountains, the rivers, and all of the incredible wildlife that calls this region home.” – Jessica Maceda
| Title |
| “Lake Tranquility” |
| “Awesome Blossom” |
| “Fantasia II” |
| “A Cozy Refuge” |
| “Mountain Peak Magic” |
| “S(no)wescape” |
Byron Tanesaca-Guaman
“I am from the smell of aromatic herbs being sold in a rural market at sunrise. I am from the sight of an elderly indigenous woman carrying an infant on her back. I am from the touch of the rough mountain cane being split and prepared for basket-making. I am from the taste of a warm potato, bean, and squash soup during the cold nights. I am from the sound of the growing river after rainfall. The Andes and Cherokee Mountains have provided me with many things including a home, a loving family, and a sense of place. The mountains have nourished me with food, love, adventure, and education. They have allowed me to partake in their reciprocity system for building a strong community.” – Byron Tenesaca-Guaman
| Title |
| “Wagras” |
| “Virgen” |
| “La Virgen” |
| “Human Mounds Max Patch” |
| “Hierva Para Cuys” |
| “Ecua 2018” |
Alicia Green
Alicia Green explores and documents images that lift women up in the world. Finding ways to showcase the amazing things that women are doing in their communities is the fuel that drives her photography. Green grew up in Wisconsin, served in the US Navy, and has put down roots in Boone with her husband, and two children. She started the marketing agency, EddyLine Creative, in 2021 after 10 years working in commercial photography and climbing industries. Her work has been featured in Climbing and Adventure Park Insider magazines. Previous photography awards include: A Long Hope Fly winner of AMPC’s Culture Category 2018, and Carport Ollie winner of AMPC’s Culture Category 2021.
| Title |
| “You Don’t Always Have To Smile” |
| “Sparkles Works for Me” |
| “Ladies Night Lift-Off” |
| “Ladies Night” |
| Joy Takes the World” |
| “It’s Just a Good Time” |
Raymond Thompson Jr.
Raymond Thompson is an artist, educator and visual journalist based in Austin, Texas. He currently works as an Assistant Professor of Photojournalism at University of Texas at Austin. He has received a MFA in Photography from West Virginia University and a MA in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. He also graduated from the University of Mary Washington with a BA in American Studies. He has worked as a freelance photographer for The New York Times, The Intercept, NBC News, NPR, Politico, ProPublica, The Nature Conservancy, ACLU, WBEZ, Google, Merrell and the Associated Press.
| Title |
| “Appalachian Ghosts: The Erased 3” |
| “Appalachian Ghosts: The Erased 2” |
| “Appalachian Ghosts: The Erased 1” |
| “Appalachian Ghosts: The Dust 1” |
| “Appalachian Ghosts: The Dust 5” |
| “Appalachian Ghosts: Tunnelitis 3” |
Ant M. Lobo
Ant M Lobo-Ladd (they/them) is a North Carolina based Queer artist, curator, and writer. Their work focuses on Queer history and narratives, sexuality, and ecology. With these themes, Lobo creates vignettes into constructed Queer worlds of past, present, and future; using their scholarly research on Queer Modernism and Black Mountain College as the backbone of their practice. Lobo’s writings on interactions with nature have appeared both nationally and internationally, most recently in the Black Mountain College Studies Journal, Volume 11. They currently live in Raleigh with their husband, where they are a gardener, orchid collector, and recently studied analog processes in photography at Appalachian State University.
| Title |
| “Studies Building Collage III” |
| “Quiet Hours Collage” |
| “Silos Collage” |
| “Lake Eden Mica” |
| “Lake Eden Collage” |
| “Studies Building Collage” |
Wendy Ewald
Wendy Ewald was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1951. She has spent more than 50 years collaborating with children, families, and teachers all over the world. In her creative work, she encourages her collaborators to use cameras (as well as using the camera herself) to record themselves, their families and their communities, and to articulate their fantasies and dreams. Ewald often has them mark or write on her own negatives, thereby challenging the concept of who actually makes an image. She has had solo exhibitions at the International Center of Photography in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of American Art, the Fotomuseum in Winterthur, Switzerland among others and participated in the 1997 Whitney Biennial. Her many honors include a MacArthur Fellowship, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
| Title |
| “Untitled” -Natalie Gibson |
| “My sister’s baby’s funeral” -Theresa Elridge |
| “Miners going home at the end of the shift” -Ruby Cornett |
| “I am the girl with the snake around her neck” -Denise Dixon |
| “I asked my sister to take a picture of me on Easter Morning” -Ruby Cornett |
| “The women hugging after church” by Darlene Watts |