“Re:Seeing” was begun as a Tumblr in 2014 to explore Meehan’s process and all that she was learning as she met, interviewed, and photographed the people who would be represented in her series. In each piece, her voice is present alongside that of the person photographed, allowing Meehan to account for her own subjectivities during this journey of trying to understand others. Her ultimate goal is that the people who have worked with her will see themselves reflected authentically in the final production of her work.
Ariel
Ariel learned about Cotillion at school, from a friend whose grandmother had started the program, more than 20 years earlier. A six-week course, Cotillion teaches “etiquette and social…
Suzanne
While Suzanne and her husband were having a house built in Newnan, in 2002, they lived in an apartment about 13 miles away, in a town called Palmetto….
Zahraw and Aatika
Zahraw and Aatika were born in Georgia and have spent their whole lives there. Their father, an engineer from Pakistan, emigrated to the United States in the 1980s,…
Brittany
When Brittany saw the portrait we had made together, she winced. “I look so mean,” she said. We were standing in her office at the University of West…
Carlos
Since arriving in Georgia, Carlos has been doing manual labor: cutting the grass in people’s yards, painting the woodwork in people’s homes, laying pipes in the road that…
Helen
To be Ms. Helen in 2019, or any one of her friends from the Howard Warner High School Class of ’54, is to carry the memory in every…
Kristina
Once a thriving cotton-mill town, Grantville sits about ten miles south of Newnan at the southern edge of Coweta County. No industry replaced the cotton mill when it…
Mirra
Mirra was about 15 when she came to the conclusion that if she wanted her life to be a success, she would have to leave Newnan. She’d been…
Jimmy
It was a sunny Saturday in April of 2018, and 700 law-enforcement officers in full riot gear were assembled in downtown Newnan. Members of the National Socialist Movement…
Jineet
In the heart of downtown Newnan, near the municipal park and the Presbyterian Church, stands the Super Latino market. The shop serves as a center for the Hispanic…
Teneka
On the day of the senior prom in Newnan, Georgia, it was hot – unseasonably hot, I was told, for the South. I had been running around all…
William
William cuts an almost mythic figure in Newnan: a courtly presence, spoken of by townspeople with a kind of reverence. The son of a mill owner, he grew…