Cari Griffith is an artist and educator located in the American South. Her work centers around memory, place and the tactile elements in our midst. Using scans from her family and community archive, botanical pieces from her garden, cyanotype, and the digital negative, her current work embodies a sense of imperfect memory as it relates to archives and storytelling. In her capacity as a photojournalism professor, she encourages a creative practice that is ethical, imaginative and explorative.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
I am currently an MA student at the University of Sussex, studying digital media, ethics and social change. I am an adjunct professor (interviewing for full-time faculty) at Union University, leading their photojournalism program. My last long-form storytelling project was a year-long ecological and place-based photojournalism project about a tobacco farmer in rural Kentucky, alongside his seasonal immigrant workers. I'm interested in the ecological interactions of our everyday lives and how place informs stories and legacies.
