Artist Talk with Rachael Banks

Join us at 2nd Story to hear from Kentucky-based artist Rachael Banks, who has several photographs on view in our current exhibition, All in the Family. Banks will discuss her work as it deals with trauma and nature as central to her family and upbringing in the mid-South. The talk will explore the overlapping roles between family members and photographic subjects as well as the challenges of documenting family life.

About the Artist: 

Rachael Banks is a working artist and Associate Professor of Photography at Northern Kentucky University. Her research interests include folklore, ecology, and epigenetics. Rachael's work addresses trauma and nature as central to relationships and experiences with the individual, the family unit, and its lasting effect on communities. She compulsively photographs deer and black dogs. 

https://rachaelbanks.com