In this episode, I speak with Andrea Morales southern-based documentary photographer working between Memphis, Tennessee & Oxford, Mississippi, where she is currently a producer at the Southern Documentary Project at the University of Mississippi. She grew up in Miami’s Little Havana and earned a B.S. in journalism from the University of Florida, as well as an M.A. in photography from Ohio University. She is also an MFA candidate in documentary expression at the University of Mississippi’s Center for Study of Southern Culture. We talk about Andrea's childhood growing up in Miami, both of our times spent at Ohio University, her projects Jemeska’s Story in Glouster, Ohio, and her Roll Down like Water project in Memphis, Tennessee.
Andrea Morales (b. 1984, Lima, Peru) is a documentary photographer based in Memphis, TN and a producer at the Southern Documentary Project at the University of Mississippi. She grew up in Miami’s Little Havana and earned a B.S. in journalism from the University of Florida, as well as a M.A. in photography from Ohio University. She is currently a candidate for an MFA in documentary expression at the University of Mississippi’s Center for Study of Southern Culture.
Before the South, she moved around the country in between while working for different newspapers, including the El Sentinel (in South Florida) and The New York Times. Most recently, she was on staff as a photographer at the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire, where she covered barn dances, ox pulls and presidential elections, all with equal joy.
http://www.andreamoralesphoto.com/
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