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Julie Rae Powers Portrait
1media/GW_JulieRae05_thumb.png2021-06-18T03:27:28+00:00Maxwell Cloed8840c620fc20aeee2b1f40a1e54c0e3967fa30d11Photo by Keavy Handley-Byrne (@keaveyhandleybyrne on Instagram)plain2021-06-18T03:27:28+00:00Maxwell Cloed8840c620fc20aeee2b1f40a1e54c0e3967fa30d
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1media/GW_JulieRae05.png2021-06-16T18:51:02+00:00Julie Rae Powers10Photographer from West Virginiastructured_gallery2021-06-24T18:51:58+00:00Julie Rae Powers is a photographer and editor from West Virginia, currently working out of Brooklyn and previously working out of Columbus, Ohio. Frequently pulling from Appalachian, lesbian, and feminist traditions of photography, Powers has constructed a body of work that is fiercely personal and startlingly intimate. Meditations on queerness, religion, loss, memory, family, friendship, and the ephemerality of art all appear throughout their photographs. Through their evocative closeness, Powers uses their photographs to weave empathy and understanding between their experiences and the experiences of others. In addition to their artistic work, Powers is editing a collection of essays and images which works to queer the Appalachian photographic tradition. This anthology, published by University of Kentucky Press, is slated to appear in 2022.
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