Moon Shine explores musical heritage in America's Appalachian region. Old-time music, faith, and story-telling all inform this portrait of place. These photographs were made along the serpentine mountain roads between Signal Mountain and Cumberland Gap, tracing Tennessee's Cumberland Trail corridor. Listening to the sounds of revelation springing from deep in the hollow, Boillot considered how this might translate to visual imagery. Boillot is still somewhere out there on one of those roads and she is still listening.
Boillot, Rachel: - Rachel Boillot is a photographer, film-maker, and educator based in Cumberland Gap, TN. She holds a BA in Sociology from Tufts University, a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University. Her work has been funded by the Annenburg Foundation (Los Angeles, CA), the Riverview Foundation (Chattanooga, TN), the Tennessee Arts Commission (Nashville, TN), the Southern Documentary Fund (Durham, NC), and the National Endowment for the Arts (Washington, D.C.). She was recently awarded the 2017 PhotoNoLa Review Award. Boillot teaches in the Art Department at Lincoln Memorial University while directing and co-producing the Cumberland Folklife series of documentary films. She recently completed a feature-length documentary film on Tennessee's musical Sharp family, titled In That Valley of Gold. Moon Shine will be published by Daylight Books in the Spring of 2019. A second edition of the self-published volume Post Script will be re-issued in 2019. She recently joined the team at the Kentucky Documentary Photography Project.
Volpe, Lisa: - Lisa Volpe is the Associate Curator, Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Before arriving in Houston, she was the Curator of the Wichita Art Museum where she oversaw all areas of the museum's collection. Additionally, she has held various curatorial roles at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA), and fellowships at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Wolf, Sasha: - After owning the important New York photo gallery, Sasha Wolf Gallery, for 10 years, Wolf transitioned back to a private space in 2017. Under the name, Sasha Wolf Projects, Wolf continues to place the work of her artist's in important private and public collections, as well as edit and support their various book and magazine publications and curate and support their exhibitions. Additionally, Wolf works with a larger group of artists on career guidance, book production, editing and sequencing and other professional practices. Wolf also works with select clients to build comprehensive, large-scale, photography collections. Wolf reviews and judges work for leading art institutions, universities and fairs numerous times a year and lectures and conducts artist's workshops around the country on professional practices and project development. * Prior to her work in the fine art photography world, Sasha was a writer, director and producer in the film and television industries and an award winning short filmmaker. Her last film, Joe, was nominated for the Palme d'Or du court métrage at Cannes and has screened all over the world.
