MAGDALENA SOLÉ: Mississippi Delta Workshop

June Rhodes at the Hot Spot, Jonestown
from New Delta Rising (University of Mississippi Press)
Photograph (c) Magdalena Solé/All Rights Reserved

Amber Thomas at Messenger's Pool Hall, Clarksdale
from New Delta Rising (University of Mississippi Press)
Photograph (c) Magdalena Solé/All Rights Reserved

Dog Waking Up, Coahoma
from New Delta Rising (University of Mississippi Press)
Photograph (c) Magdalena Solé/All Rights Reserved

Wall Street Journal 2.11.2012

“Ms. Solé’s lushly colorful and formally striking images are restless. The people of Clarksdale are lively and in motion, con-trasting sharply with their crumbling surroundings. The colors Ms. Solé finds everywhere in Clarksdale—the bright green walls of the Wangz and Thangz restaurant, the deep blue backgrounds of Messenger’s Pool Hall, the red spotlight on the stage at Red’s Lounge—are visual metaphors for the culture and history that remain vivid even beneath the cracking surface. Like Clarksdale’s soundtrack, they electrify. “

A Master Class for Photographers
With Magdalena Solé
October 17 - 24 / Mississippi Delta
Seven Chimneys Farm in Stovall, MS

"Workshop Description: For amateurs and professionals alike, Magdalena Solé's Workshop begins with reviews of each photographer’s work. We will explore a series of topics: including the process of photographing spontaneously and intuitively; how to photograph in cultures other than one’s own; how to edit photographs so they reveal a story. It is a Workshop that will emphasize the development of a unique, personal way of seeing and the development of an intuitive way of editing your photographs. We will also discuss with participants how to take their work to the next level. Participants should be prepared to bring twenty prints to class. The workshop will be held at beautiful Seven Chimneys Farm in Stovall, MS." About The Workshop Here

About Magdalena Solé Here
Preview: New Delta Rising at Photo-eye Books

NEW DELTA RISING: Magdalena Solé

New Delta Rising | Photographs by Magdalena Solé

University Press of Mississippi,
Dreyfus Health Foundation, Rogosin Institute, 2012

Photograph (c) Magdalena Solé

Photograph (c) Magdalena Solé

Young Ladies SlowExposures 2011 Exhibition
Photograph (c) Magdalena Solé

Photograph (c) Magdalena Solé

I have returned to the Delta a dozen times.
Always for the same reason: the people.

New Delta Rising | Photographs by Magdalena Solé
An exploration of life in the Mississippi Delta

The Mississippi Delta has been called "the most southern place on earth. Award-winning photographer Magdalena Solé spent a year interviewing and photographing hundreds of residents in the Mississippi Delta. The deep connection she felt comes through in the compelling images in this book. Solé captures their personal dignity, resilience, and resourcefulness, along with the closeness of family and community she found among them. (publisher)

"People in the Delta have stories, music, love and deep care for their community, irrespective of the hardship they endure. I was drawn to the people I encountered. They were unlike most I had known. They allowed me to slip into their midst as if they had known me for a long time, and we could share stories, laughter, sorrow and silence. This didn’t happen one time, it happened every day in every town." – Magdalena Solé read more here

The Wall Street Journal

Photo-Op: Delta Hues "Ms. Solé's lushly colorful and formally striking images are restless. The people of Clarksdale are lively and in motion, contrasting sharply with their crumbling surroundings."

New Delta Rising
Photographs by Magdalena Solé

Text by Barry H. Smith and Tom Lassiter