Dason Pettit is a lens based artist residing in Oxford, MS and working all across the Southeast. He received his MFA from Louisiana State University and his BFA from the University of Mississippi. He has been published in multiple periodicals, as well as had exhibitions across the U.S. He is currently making work for several new projects.
An installment in our weekly photography series, Eyes on the South
Inspired by William Faulkner’s fictional setting of Yoknapatawpha County, Dason Pettit’s photographs capture an almost mythical, not quite fictional version of Oxford, Mississippi.
In Scattered Feathers, Dason Pettit documents the probable extinction of the ivory-billed woodpecker, exploring the “persistent existential crisis” embodied by the search for this bird.