Casey Joiner is a photographer in New Orleans, LA. Her practice is rooted in the documentary tradition, with a non-hierarchical approach to image selection. She employs the fundamental grammar of light, shadow, and color to make images, rather than relying on strongly narrative content to tell her stories. For Joiner, the productive capacity of the photographic medium lies in its accessibility and availability to an array of interpretations. Her pictures have formalist conviction, democratic vernacular and a magical realist attitude. She is informed by her affection for places full of peculiar nonsense and deep struggle, slow things, and growing up in the Deep South. Matter-of-fact in their sentimentality and beholden only to the actual, her pictures speak in the abstract of memory, identity, celebration, and perpetual care.

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