About Wayne Sides, photographer

A native of Calhoun County, Wayne Sides received a bachelor’s degree in visual and performing arts from UA and earned a master’s degree in photography from Pratt Institute in New York in 1983. He has worked as a lecturer and artist-in-residence with Southwest State University of Marshall, Minn.; the New York Federation for the Arts; the Whitney Museum of American Arts; and the Alabama State Council of the Arts. He has also worked as a freelance photographer, including with Columbia Pictures in Mobile on the production of the movie “Close Encounters of a Third Kind.”

Sides gained regional recognition in the late 1970s for his powerful photographs of the Ku Klux Klan, some of which were recently exhibited at Lori Davis Gallery. He is also recognized for his collaborative work with musicians, poets, and other performing artists and for his wide range of subject matter in his photography. Sides has also collaborated with Alabama poet Jeanie Thompson in the exhibition “Litany for a Vanishing Landscape” and in her collection of poems, “White For Harvest.” He is also a co-author with Jake Berry in the book “Silence and the Hammer." Sides and Berry formed the bluegrass band known as “Bare Knuckles.”

The recipient of nearly a dozen awards and fellowships, including a Best Mixed Media Award from the Philadelphia Arts Museum, Sides has held more than 15 one-man shows and exhibited in more than 20 group shows throughout the nation. His photographs can be seen in more than 10 national books, publications and reviews, including “The Ballad of Little River” by Paul Hemphill.

Official website: http://www.WayneSides.com

Email us at: w_sides@bellsouth.net