Exhibit: "City Under One Roof"

In "City Under One Roof," 2013 Lange-Taylor Prize Winner Jen Kinney combines photographs and writing to explore the shared spaces of Whittier, Alaska - population 200 - and to "illuminate the interplay between space and story. The images are the texture of the town, the stage upon which its folklore is set... which elevates the process of photographing from an act of description to a search for the foundations of mythmaking. How does myth relate to history? To the individual? To physical space?"The Lange-Taylor Prize is a $10,000 award given to encourage documentary work in the tradition of acclaimed photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor, and supports documentary artists - working alone or in teams - whose extended fieldwork projects rely on the interplay of words and images. Kinney's project, which she plans to publish as a book, will weave together her photographs, edited oral histories, historical essays, and archival photographs. She is also writing a blog and producing short radio pieces.