Lissen Here! by P.M. Jones and D.M. Jones
In 1976-77, historian and writer, Dorothy Mallory Jones, embarked on a project that soon became a mission. She drove the back roads of middle and south Georgia over the course of several months. Armed with a tape recorder and a photographer, she interviewed ordinary Black folks - on the porches of their homes or in the fields as they worked - documenting their cares, their ambitions, their lives. This field work culminated in a program for Public Television, THE TROUBLE I’VE SEEN. Twenty years later, her son, digital artist and scholar, Philip Mallory Jones, combined the poetry with photographs and other media to form beautifully distinctive image compositions. And now, another twenty years later, Alchemy Media Publishing has published their collaboration as a coffee-table portfolio, LISSEN HERE!.
In 1976-77, historian and writer, Dorothy Mallory Jones, embarked on a project that soon became a mission. She drove the back roads of middle and south Georgia over the course of several months. Armed with a tape recorder and a photographer, she interviewed ordinary Black folks - on the porches of their homes or in the fields as they worked - documenting their cares, their ambitions, their lives. This field work culminated in a program for Public Television, THE TROUBLE I’VE SEEN. Twenty years later, her son, digital artist and scholar, Philip Mallory Jones, combined the poetry with photographs and other media to form beautifully distinctive image compositions. And now, another twenty years later, Alchemy Media Publishing has published their collaboration as a coffee-table portfolio, LISSEN HERE!.
In 1976-77, historian and writer, Dorothy Mallory Jones, embarked on a project that soon became a mission. She drove the back roads of middle and south Georgia over the course of several months. Armed with a tape recorder and a photographer, she interviewed ordinary Black folks - on the porches of their homes or in the fields as they worked - documenting their cares, their ambitions, their lives. This field work culminated in a program for Public Television, THE TROUBLE I’VE SEEN. Twenty years later, her son, digital artist and scholar, Philip Mallory Jones, combined the poetry with photographs and other media to form beautifully distinctive image compositions. And now, another twenty years later, Alchemy Media Publishing has published their collaboration as a coffee-table portfolio, LISSEN HERE!.