Dad's Office '03, 2010
From the series Confessions for a Son
Archival pigment print
20 x 25 inches, Edition of 5
32 x 40 inches, Edition of 5
Papa's Shotgun, 2010
From the series Confessions for a Son
Archival pigment print
20 x 25 inches, Edition of 5
32 x 40 inches, Edition of 5
Journals, 2010
From the series Confessions for a Son
Archival pigment print
20 x 25 inches, Edition of 5
32 x 40 inches, Edition of 5
Princeton '05, 2010
From the series Confessions for a Son
Archival pigment print
20 x 25 inches, Edition of 5
32 x 40 inches, Edition of 5
Christmas Morning, 2009
From the series Confessions for a Son
Archival pigment print
20 x 25 inches, Edition of 5
32 x 40 inches, Edition of 5
Wedding Silver, 2009
From the Series Confessions for a Son
Archival pigment print
20 x25 inches, Edition of 5
32 x 40 inches, Edition of 5
Floodlight, 2009
From the series Confessions for a Son
Archival pigment print
20 x 25 inches, Edition of 5
32 x 40 inches, Edition of 5
Dad's Office '05, 2009
From the series Confessions for a Son
Archival pigment print
Laurinburg & Southern Railroad, 2011
From the series Confessions for a Son
Archival pigment print
Cotton Harvest, 2010
From the series Confessions for a Son
Archival pigment print
Company Car, 2010
From the series Confessions for a Son
Archival pigment print
McNair Evans grew up in a small farming town in North Carolina and found photography while studying cultural anthropology at Davidson College, NC. His photographs explore an American cultural landscape ever changing by the forces of modernization and focus heavily on individuals impacted by these forces. His work presents personal, often autobiographical, subject matter in unconventional narrative form, and has been recognized for its metaphoric use of light and literary character. He is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow.
Screened at Slamdance Film Festival, Park City, UT (2022) & Chichester International Film Festival (2021)
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South
Through December 6, 2019
Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh, NC
and The Power Plant Gallery, Durham, NC
NC State’s Gregg Museum and Duke’s Power Plant Gallery have joined forces to show Southbound—Photographs of and about the New South, a joint mega-exhibition that seeks to reveal the South through the lenses of fifty-five contemporary photographers. Chosen by Mark Sloan and Mark Long of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, SC, Southbound presents places and images they saw as indelibly and irrefutably “Southern.” This is the second stop for this traveling exhibition.
Photo District News: Fine Art Careers: McNair Evans Learns the Value of Patience (And a Business Plan) by David Walker
"McNair Evans expected his career to flourish quickly after he graduated in 2011 from Academy of Art University in San Francisco. “I felt perhaps entitled to that. I felt that people ought to like my work,” the photographer says. It wasn’t long before he realized that to build a career, “the road is long, and it’s hard, and you’ve got to have patience.'"
Evans' image Crescent 13001, from the series In Search of Great Men (pictured) also appears on the cover of this issue.
An interview with photographer McNair Evans.
McNair Evans' work was featured as the cover photo for the Fine Art Photography issue of PDN. Also in this issue, McNair gives some advice on working as an artist.
Listing for McNair Evans: Confessions for a Son exhibition.
Feature on exhibition, McNair Evans: Confessions for a Son.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for current Fellows.
New Yorker Feature on In Search of Great Men exhibition at San Francisco City Hall.
