Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South is about the South as a whole. It doesn’t focus on one city, state, topography, and group of people. The photographs capture a feeling, a moment in time in the New South.

“Funnily enough, Charleston itself isn’t portrayed as much as you may image, but Charleston – in terms of a geographer, it’s interesting to think about the places that are represented – but its certainly very visible because of the places that photographers are drawn towards,” Mark Long said.

When looking at the historical south, Long comments that you can draw a line from Charleston to other places in an interesting way.

One photographer, Thomas Daniel, photographs people and events on the fringes of American society. Southbound features images from his reenactment series titled Southern Cause. His experience as a combat photographer in Vietnam is important to consider when viewing these images.

“He embedded himself in the civil war reenactment and disguised his camera. He gets a rank,” Sloan said.