Thursday, September 22, 2022
4:00pm-6:00pm CDT
Stirling's Coffee House
This collection of work by Qiyu (George) Meng and Maria Mattingly is an exploration of experience and emotional attachment united by time and place. Through photography, Meng and Mattingly aim to offer a perspective of Sewanee that oscillates between intimate details and a broader grasp of what it can mean to live in a time marked by fear and uncertainty. This collection of work is defined by the simultaneous fragility and permanence of joy and how relationships between people, places, and spaces are interwoven into a community.
Maria Mattingly, from Cookeville, Tennessee, is a senior at Sewanee: the University of the South majoring in Art with a concentration in Photography. Through portraiture, Mattingly examines human connections and relationships and explores themes and motifs such as the loss of childhood innocence, the experience of being a woman, empty space, darkness, and introspection. Mattingly primarily works with medium and large format film-based cameras and prefers working with hand-sensitized photographic materials. Mattingly has been awarded Sewanee’s Shepard Award for Excellence in Photography and the Peter V. Guarisco Merit Scholarship in Art.
For business inquiries and print sales, please contact Maria Mattingly:
email: mattimc0@sewanee.edu
phone: 931-265-1841 (text messages are preferred)
Instagram: @mariamattinglyphotography
George Meng, from Shanghai, China, is a Junior at Sewanee: the University of the South majoring in Art (with a concentration in Photography) and Computer Science. Meng works with digital cameras along with medium and large format film cameras. He has experience with cyanotype, silver gelatin, photogravure, and inkjet prints. Furthermore, Meng has been awarded Fellowship in the Arts since his freshman year.
For business inquiries and print sales information, please contact George Meng
email: 01gmeng@gmail.com
phone: (931) 327-5229 (text messages are preferred)
Instagram: @mqy.photography
