Urban Texture


Textures found on and around Elm Street, Greensboro, NC.

(c)2006 Rash Photo
The as the city continues to grow, our eyes crave clean, sleek, well designed environments. Walk around the corner, explore the alleys behind street-level facades and even the most beautiful architecture might have a differnt story to tell. Paint peels from the walls, basement windows sealed and resealed, and service entry paths never seen by patrons but always by the workers. The top image is peeling plaster, digitally stitched to create a rorschach-esque eye. The bottom image is unaltered, found texture from behind a bank in downtown Greensboro.

John Rash

John Rash is a filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist based in Oxford, Mississippi. John earned his M.F.A. in Documentary and Experimental Art from Duke University and B.F.A. in Art Education from UNC-Greensboro, and now works as Assistant Professor of Film Production and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. His documentary films and photographs often focus on topics of identity, counter-culture communities, social justice, and environment and have been shown in festivals and museums around the world. John has received multiple awards for his documentary works including the Soul of Southern Film Award from Indie Memphis Film Festival for Negro Terror, History+ Best Documentary Award from the North Carolina Museum of History for Our Movement Starts Here, and an Emmy nomination for his film about South Carolina-based photographer Sam Wang. John is also the founder of the Southern Punk Archive which aims to preserve the stories of DIY punk communities in the American South. In 2025, John was an Artist in Residence at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai and a resident artist at Crosstown Arts in Memphis, TN in 2022.

https://www.johnrash.com
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