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September 22, 2012 Here's a photographer you probably don't know, but who's worth a closer look.

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June 22, 2012 An Atlanta museum commissions photographers with a very simple challenge: Picture the South. And the results vary widely.

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May 11, 2012 The last installment of a weeklong look at up-and-coming photographers in the South.

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May 9, 2012 Photographer Tammy Mercure has a humorous take on everything the Great Smoky Mountains have to offer — in case natural beauty isn't enough.

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May 8, 2012 To extend the cooking analogy, Frank Hamrick's photos are like a long, slow roast.

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May 7, 2012 North Carolina photographer Christopher Sims has been to Guantanamo Bay twice to capture the things he thinks are overlooked.

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January 18, 2012 Photographer Kathleen Robbins went back to her home in the Mississippi Delta to answer a question: Who's still farming cotton?

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November 23, 2011 Mug shot newspapers might be a new fad. But before photos went digital, prisoner portraits were thrust into drawers, many to be forgotten.

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May 19, 2011 Roughly 1 in 3 adult Americans is now obese. And ground zero for the nation's obesity battle is Mississippi — where 7 of 10 adults in the state are either overweight or obese. The problem is most pronounced in Holmes County — the poorest and heaviest in the state.

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On All Things ConsideredPlaylist

• VIDEO: 'The Most Obese Place In The World'
• PICTURE SHOW: What Makes Bad Food So Good?

May 19, 2011 A new collaboration with Oxford American magazine spotlights the South, starting with a dispatch from the most obese county in the U.S.

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