Thu, Oct 22
|Main Street Books
An Evening with Virginia Richards
Her critically acclaimed photographic series, The Inner Passage, traces a largely undocumented network of 17th and 18th century canals built by Black enslaved laborers.
Time and Location
Oct 22, 2026, 7:00 PM
Main Street Books, 126 S Main St, Davidson, NC 28036, USA
About the Event
Virginia (Ginna) McGee Richards is a photographer, researcher, and former environmental lawyer whose work is rooted in nature and a sense of place. Born and raised in North Carolina, she examines the contradictions embedded in southern land and culture. This intimate connection to land and history forms the foundation of her artistic practice.
Her critically acclaimed photographic series, The Inner Passage, traces a largely undocumented network of 17th and 18th century canals built by Black enslaved laborers. Through years of fieldwork and archival research, she uncovered the environmental and human histories encoded in these waterways. “I want people to read the work as a visual poem,” she says, “to feel the land telling its own story.”
Ginna is a Davidson College graduate (class of 1985). We welcome her back to Davidson.
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