“Told From a Future Tense”: The Work of Benjy Russell
For the debut theme feature of TRICKSTER, Robert Alan Grand examines the slapdash glamour and queer subculture found in Benjy Russell's photographs.
Robert Alan Grand is a writer and photographer based in Winston-Salem, NC. His writings have appeared in Art in America, The Bitter Southerner, The Brooklyn Rail, and the Oxford American, among others. His photographs of the rural south have appeared in numerous exhibitions and regional publications. Before coming back home to the Carolinas, Grand was the co-founder and co-director of Kimberly-Klark, an interdisciplinary project space in Queens, New York.