Carl Simmons is a New Bedford artist who finds inspiration in the ways we forget and remember local history, our preference for folklore and mythology over facts, and the contradictory conundrums of preservation.

Jesse Dritz is a PhD candidate studying the history of photography in the American studies program at Boston University. She has held positions at institutions including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the American Antiquarian Society, and Aperture Foundation. Jesse’s writing on photography appeared in 10x10 Photobooks’ recent catalogue What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, which was named ‘catalogue of the year’ at the 2021 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. Her dissertation considers grassroots student photo publications in the 1970s as alternative practices which reimagined the possibilities and uses of documentary photography.