John Tully photographs, 2014-2018

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Summary

Creator:
Tully, John, 1985-
Abstract:
Collection consists of thirty color inkjet prints from a body of work titled "Shifting Sands" by photographer John Tully. The images were taken at the North Carolina coast, and include natural areas such as beaches along the Outer Banks and coastal forests in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, and human environments such as coastal highways, piers, abandoned beachfront properties. There are also some portraits of people. The photographs are accompanied by captions written by the photographer and by the artist's statement. Together, photographs and text call out the environmental, economic, and social consequences brought on by natural changes as well as by human-created climate change. The prints measure 17x22 (20) and 11x17 (10) inches. This work received the 2018 ADA Award for Documentarians of Environmental Change. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
Extent:
2.0 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Language:
Materials in English
Collection ID:
RL.11694

Background

Scope and content:

Collection consists of thirty color inkjet prints from the body of work "Shifting Sands" by photographer John Tully. The images were taken on the North Carolina coast, and include natural areas such as beaches along the Outer Banks and coastal forests in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, and human-built environments such as sand-covered highways, piers and jetties, and abandoned beachfront properties. There are also some portraits of people.

Twenty prints measure 17x22 inches and ten are sized 11x17 inches. The photographs are accompanied by captions written by the photographer and by the artist's statement on the project. This work received the 2018 Archive of Documentary Arts Collection Award for Documentarians of Environmental Change.

From the artist's statement: "The work in this project documents effects of rising sea levels on North Carolina's Outer Banks. Already unstable sand bars that naturally shift and migrate, climate change is exacerbating existing issues and revealing new ones, forcing residents to grapple with the impacts of a changing landscape."

Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.

Biographical / historical:

John Tully (b. 1985) is a documentary photographer currently based in New Hampshire whose work focuses on the backyards and backroads that make up the peripheries of a community. A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and student at the Danish School of Media and Journalism, John worked as a staff photographer for several daily newspapers around the country.

He has received several international awards for journalism as well as his photo editing work. In 2015, Time Magazine named him as one of 50 Instagram photographers to follow in all 50 states for North Carolina, and again in 2016 after moving to New Hampshire. The thread in his work is about the idea of home and search for community.

Tully is a recipient of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University 2018 Award for Documentarians of Environmental Change.

Acquisition information:
The John Tully photographs were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a purchase in 2018.
Processing information:

Processed and described by Edward Coles, Paula Jeannet and Alanna Styer, January 2019.

Accession(s) represented in this collection guide: 2018-0180.

Arrangement:

Prints are arranged in original order as assigned by the photographer.

Physical facet:
30 prints
Dimensions:
11x17, 17x22 inches
Rules or conventions:
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