“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.
Kayla
When Kayla’s first child was born, in 2013, she wanted a professional portrait made of the baby. But the photographer she called was charging $375, beyond what she…
Rufus
Gospel music was filling the air in the largest black church in Coweta County when I first saw Rufus. I was with a friend who’d invited me to…
Tina
One evening in early spring I was driving around the eastern edge of Newnan, where the road dips and turns away from the big-box stores and housing developments,…
Coleman
I met Coleman at a dinner at his parents’ home, on my first “exploratory visit” to Newnan. Though we’d had many conversations by phone and email, it was…
D.J.
I first see D.J. along the route of the Veterans’ Day parade, in Newnan, Georgia. He’s sitting in a plastic folding chair patterned with the American flag, next…
Jane
The roots of Jane’s family were set down in Georgia just after the Revolutionary War, when a multiple-great-grandfather, who’d fought for the Colonies, was given a parcel of…
L.C.
It’s a bright fall morning in Courthouse Square, and I’m looking for a place to sit down. Farmers from around Newnan, Georgia, have set up tables – displaying…
Mac
MacDonald learned many things at cotillion, a Southern tradition of six months of etiquette classes, begun in Newnan during fifth grade. Along with the other 11-year-olds, he learned…
Wiley
On the day that I met Wiley I was with three women from a well-to-do Baptist church in the center of Newnan. They belong to a group that…
Barbara
While working in Georgia, I am trying to consider the long threads of history: how they come together to weave the present moment, tethering the present to the…
Cliff and Monique
Just east of Newnan’s Courthouse Square lies a parcel of land, wide open except for slim oak trees scattered on a hillside. The land is bordered by a…
Trent
The first time I began photographing in Newnan, Georgia, I was taken to the local high school’s homecoming football game. I’d been invited to Newnan by the head…