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1media/trish_gibson_headshot.jpg2023-04-28T16:19:42+00:00Trish Gibson5Photographer from Elizabethton, Tennesseestructured_gallery2023-09-27T17:37:18+00:00Trish Gibson is a photographer and art professor from Elizabethton, Tennessee and currently based out of Lexington, Kentucky. Her body of work is one of familial archaeology; she uses photography to explore the relationships between gender, violence, generational trauma, escape, and the small joys that constitute many families across Appalachia and the South. She situates much of her work in and around the home, capturing all of the ideological pulses and personal histories that alter, mar, and reframe familiar domestic spaces. At the center of her work are the women in her family, the Appalachian women that typically go unnoticed and excluded from larger narratives about the region. Through her photographs, Trish Gibson reckons with her ancestry and current place in the world in a way that transcends typical notions of public and private, domestic and worldly.
Trish Gibson's body of work is visible on her website.
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