Mapping Dissonance
(New Project)

Light on Cut Paper: Photography and Collage
New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery in collaboration with the Kolaj Institute
June 10 - July 22, 2026

I Still Speak Southern in My Head
(New Book)

Now in the Collections of:

• Vanderbilt University Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries

• Davidson College  E.H. Little Library

• Georgia Institute of Technology Libraries

• University of West Georgia Ingram Library

• Emory University Woodruff Library

• The Citadel, Daniel Library

Potential Space

Florida Museum of Photographic Arts
Tampa, Florida
April 28 - August 9, 2026

ADD|MIX|FOLD

UCSF Memory and Aging Center, Gallery 190
San Francisco, California
April - June, 2026
Reception: April 9, 2026, 4:30-6pm
Website

Mapping Dissonance: America 2025 by Nancy Richards Farese – Art, Identity and a Changing Nation ›

Dodho Magazine, March 2026

Mapping Dissonance: America 2025 is a visual archive of an extraordinary year in America. This project began in January 2025 as an exploration of life increasingly lived through screens.

I wanted to document the forces shaping our everyday lives that were so difficult to make visible: AI beginning to hold our ideas and our intellect — and us letting go. The daily outsourcing of our inner lives to something that is, in the end, nothing. The slipping of life into surveillance; loneliness growing more visible by the day; a government that seemed to be saying yes to a warming planet. Contemporary life had already drifted into the unfamiliar, the alarming — and I wanted to bear witness to it.

What I did not anticipate was the seismic nature of the political change that followed, or the dramatic shift in my sense of America — to the world, and to my own identity. What began as an outward-facing study of modern life had suddenly turned inward, into a personal inquiry to understand the idea of America in my own life.

A Year After Cuts to USAID, an Urgent Reminder from the Ukraine-Poland Border ›

Public Seminar Magazine, March 2026

Documentary photographer Nancy Richards Farese captures the effects of Russia’s war in Ukraine and the US’s shutdown of foreign aid.

handmade book “Fodor’s in Japan” is featured today on Lenscratch! ›

Lenscratch, August 2025

"A 1971 Fodor’s guidebook to Japan became the repurposed artist book Fodor’s in Japan by Nancy Farese. Carved out beautifully the book with the antique red cover became the house of the carefully made accordion folds. I am intrigued by the idea, the thought process and the attention to details. The knots with the twine that give the ‘ephemeral’ nature of unique experience and the worn and faded pages carrying the stain of time blended beautifully with the images of the natural world, the season and light, the passing or resting people, the silent and transformational moments from Japan. A beautiful book object!” — Laila Nahar

Lens-based artist, publisher, and photobook maker, Laila Nahar, was invited to select her top picks as a guest critic at the Griffin Museum Handmade Photobook Exhibition. Read the interview on @lenscratch. Thank you to @alinesmithson, @naharlaila, @datzpress and @griffinmuseum

Photographer Grapples With The Complexities Of The American South In New Photo BooK ›

Girl Talk HQ, April 2025

Workshop Arts: Nancy Richards Farese: I Still Speak Southern In My Head ›

The Eye of Photography, April 2025