On Exhibit: Children of Indigo Documentary Photo Project

Photographer Caroline Gutman’s work from her Pulitzer Center-supported project Children of Indigo is part of a photography exhibition that examines personal and cultural histories of the South Carolina Lowcountry presented by the City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs.

Children of Indigo is a documentary project historical and modern in nature. Gutman explores how the commodity and its dye fueled slavery in the American colonies, and then turns to today with the stories of Lowcountry women who are building a vibrant community of textile artists and homesteaders reviving Indigo cultivation and dying for their own purposes. “Indigo is the voice of our ancestors,” textile artist Arianne King Comer has said. 

The exhibition also includes a non-Pulitzer Center project, Calling Me Home: A Visual Ode to the Low-Country, a tribute to Wadmalaw Island and its environs by photographer Marcus Middleton.

City Gallery will hold an opening reception for both exhibitions on Friday, December 13, from 5:00-7:00pm.

Gutman’s artist talk will be held on January 25, 2025, at 2:00pm. Middleton’s artist’s talk will be held on February 9, 2025, at 2:00pm. 

All events are free and open to the public. For more information, visit City Gallery.