ZEKE Fall 2019
Contents includes: "Youth of Belfast" by Toby Binder, and "Delta Hill Riders" by Rory Doyle, winners of ZEKE Award for Documentary Photography "Rising Tides" with photographs by Sean Gallagher, Lauren Owens Lambert, and Michael O. Snyder "Out of the Shadows: Shamed Teen Mothers of Rwanda" by Carol Allen Storey Interview with Lekgetho Makola, Head of Market Photo Workshop, South Africa, by Caterina Clerici "Why Good Pictures of Bad Things Matter" by Glenn Ruga Book Reviews and more...
Contents includes:
"Youth of Belfast" by Toby Binder, and "Delta Hill Riders" by Rory Doyle, winners of ZEKE Award for Documentary Photography
"Rising Tides" with photographs by Sean Gallagher, Lauren Owens Lambert, and Michael O. Snyder
"Out of the Shadows: Shamed Teen Mothers of Rwanda" by Carol Allen Storey
Interview with Lekgetho Makola, Head of Market Photo Workshop, South Africa, by Caterina Clerici
"Why Good Pictures of Bad Things Matter" by Glenn Ruga
Book Reviews and more...
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Delta<br />
Hill<br />
Riders<br />
PHOTOS BY RORY DOYLE<br />
It’s estimated that just after the Civil War,<br />
one in four cowboys was African American.<br />
Yet this population was drastically underrepresented<br />
in popular accounts, and it is<br />
still. The “cowboy” identity retains a strong<br />
presence in many contemporary black<br />
communities.<br />
This ongoing project, “Delta Hill Riders,” sheds<br />
light on the overlooked subculture of African<br />
American cowboys and cowgirls in the rural<br />
Mississippi Delta. The work resists both historical<br />
and contemporary stereotypes. Rory Doyle has<br />
captured black heritage rodeos, horse shows, trail<br />
rides, “Cowboy Night” at black nightclubs, and<br />
subjects’ homes across the Delta.<br />
It’s a story that’s particularly timely with the current<br />
political environment, and one that provides a<br />
renewed focus on rural America. Doyle has captured<br />
a group of riders showing love for their horses<br />
and fellow cowboys/cowgirls, while also passing<br />
down traditions and historical perspectives among<br />
generations.<br />
Rory Doyle is a photographer based in Cleveland,<br />
Mississippi in the rural Mississippi Delta. Born and<br />
raised in Maine, Doyle moved to the South in 2009<br />
and has remained committed to the region ever<br />
since. His work often highlights unique Southern<br />
subcultures commonly overlooked.<br />
Doyle is a 2018 Mississippi Visual Artist Fellow<br />
through the Mississippi Arts Commission and<br />
National Endowment for the Arts for his ongoing<br />
project on African American cowboys and cowgirls,<br />
“Delta Hill Riders.” Doyle won the 16th Annual<br />
Smithsonian Photo Contest with the project in <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
The work was featured in the Half King Photo<br />
Series in New York and The Print Space Gallery in<br />
London before opening at the Delta Arts Alliance<br />
in February <strong>2019</strong>. He was also recognized for the<br />
project by winning the <strong>2019</strong> Zeiss Photography<br />
Award, and the photojournalism category at the<br />
2018 Eye Em Awards in Berlin, Germany.<br />
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