Exhibitions

Photographing Southern Writers

An Unlikely Journey to the Soul of Southern Literature 

September 24  -  November 21, 2025

Opening Reception, September 24

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Koger Center for the Arts

Columbia, South Carolina

A major exhibition of my photographs will open September 24, 2025 at Koger Center for the Arts in Columbia, South Carolina featuring photographs from my first book, Images of the Southern Writer (UGA Press, 1985). These writers include Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, Cormac McCarthy, James Dickey, William Styron, Erskine Caldwell, Anne Tyler, Shelby Foote, and dozens of others.

A selection of other images will be on display, including portraits of many other writers photographed during my career, including Tom Wolfe, Joseph Heller, Tom Stoppard, Richard Hugo, Seamus Heaney, George Plimpton, Czesław Miłosz, Toni Morrison, Garrison Keillor, and Tim O’Brien.

The exhibition is a unique collaboration between the University of South Carolina's Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections and the Koger Center for the Arts. My entire collection of photographs, letters, and all associated material related to the Southern Writer project and my career as a photographer and writer has been permanently archived and catalogued by the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections and is available to the public.