Entry 06: Greensboro (my city)

Shots of Greensboro on a December morning in 2005.


©2005 Rash Photo
This is my city. I wanted to build a slideshow of images to use as an example of how to document a place (for my multimedia storytelling class). The original slideshow was set to an audio track from the Greensboro based band Dawn Chorus. You would never tell looking at these sunny photos that the temperature was around 25F that morning. My hands were numb and my face a bit frozen after gathering almost 20 different location shots. The Radio Flyer tricycles may seem a bit out of place with the other architectural focused shots, but they were so beautiful I couldn't leave them out. The first two images you see in this blog are litterally what I saw in front (Coffee Shop) and behind (hardware store w/ radio flyers) me as I stood on Spring Garden Street that morning. I entertained the idea of making these into xmas cards last year, but didn't have the time before leaving for Hong Kong. I suppose it's still not too late, and my friends could end up with one of these images in their mailbox sometime in the future.

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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