Mark Steinmetz, adjunct photography instructor, will be showing work in New York City in a show, entitled “South,” which runs from March 21 through May 11 at the Yancey Richardson Gallery in the Chelsea District.
The photographs were made in this region, Knoxville and Athens, Ga., and are Steinmetz’s reaction to the areas.
“This show is connected to American culture,” Steinmetz said. “These could look like photographs of any place in America.”
Steinmetz said the work is a reaction against the idea of a romantic, gothic South and shows a new South with an edge.
Photography for Steinmetz is a “kind of challenging poetry,” he said. There is an internal drive and a need to do that thrills and fascinates him. He strives to be as interesting as possible to himself and fulfill his part as a link in the web of the photography world.
Steinmetz has taught photography at UTK, the University of Georgia, Columbia College in Chicago, and abroad in Cortona, Italy.
His work has been accepted into several museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and published in magazines such as Aperture, The Georgia Review, and most recently in Five Points.
His book, Tuscan Trees, came out last year.
More books are in the future for Steinmetz who said he will “keep working and go with the flow.

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