RaMell Ross
RaMell Ross (b. 1982) is a writer, educator, and documentary maker who splits his time between Alabama and Rhode Island, where he teaches at Brown University. Lately, Ross is best known for his critically acclaimed documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening, an intimate examination of the southern Black experience in the same place where Walker Evans and James Agee chronicled the stories of sharecropper families in the 1930s in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Hale County won a Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for an Oscar at the 91st Academy Awards, and has screened at the Museum of Modern Art (New York); the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC); the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles); the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London); Museum of Moving Image (New York); and Lincoln Center (New York).
His photography, for its part, has appeared in The New York Times, Aperture, Harper’s, TIME, and Oxford American, among others. In 2016, Ross was awarded an Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship and a Rhode Island Foundation MacColl Johnson artist fellowship. Photographs from his project, South County, AL (a Hale County) will be the subject of a major solo exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans) in 2020.