Kristine Potter: Dark Waters
By (Author) Kristine Potter
Text by Rebecca Bengal
Designed by Julia Schfer
Aperture
Aperture
26th October 2023
United States
General
Non Fiction
Landscapes / seascapes
779.3675
Winner of Grand Prix Images Vevey 2019 (Switzerland)
Hardback
140
Width 260mm, Height 292mm
A tour-de-force of Southern Gothic NoirKristine Potter reinvents a centuries-old genre with coolness and clarity
Acclaimed author Rebecca Bengal contributes an original short story inspired by her personal experiences with the American murder ballad
Potters examination of violence against women, as inscribed on the American landscape, is both timeless and absolutely of the moment
Kristine Potter (born in Dallas, 1977) is an artist based in Nashville. She holds a BFA in photography; a BA in art history from the University of Georgia; and an MFA in photography from Yale University. In 2021, her work was included in But Still, It Turns, an exhibition (and book) curated by Paul Graham that launched at the International Center of Photography, New York, before traveling to the Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, in 2022. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2018) and the Grand Prix Images Vevey (201920). Manifest, her first monograph, was published in 2018. Potter is currently an assistant professor of photography at Middle Tennessee State University. Rebecca Bengalis a writer of fiction and nonfiction, currently based in Brooklyn. She is a MacDowell fellowship recipient, a contributing editor at Oxford American, and a past editor at DoubleTake, American Short Fiction, the Onion, and Vogue.com. Her stories, interviews, essays, reported pieces, and collaborations with artists have been published by Aperture, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Paris Review. Bengals first collection of essays, Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists, is forthcoming from Aperture in 2023.