This photo gallery gives viewers an inside look of the activities and other features that attract thousands to the Mississippi Book Festival every year. This year marked the 11th iteration of this literary event.
David Rae Morris
David Rae Morris’ photographs have been published in National Geographic, Time Magazine, Newsweek, USA Today, New York Times, Utne Reader, The Nation, as well as the Angolite, the official Magazine of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, and Love And Rage, a national anarchist weekly. He served as a contributing photographer for the Associated Press, Reuters, Agency FrancePresse and the European Pressphoto Agency. In 1999, Morris collaborated with his late father, the noted author Willie Morris, on "My Mississippi," a collection of essays and photographs about the state of Mississippi and her people published by the University Press of Mississippi. His photographs are in many private and public collections including in the permanent collections of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans, and Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson. His exhibit, “Do You Know What it Means? The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,” opened at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art ten weeks after Katrina made landfall. His post Katrina work was also featured in the book, "Missing New Orleans," published by the Ogden in November 2005 and have appeared in the HBO series “Treme.” His 2022 book "Love, Daddy: Letters From My Father" was published by the University Press of Mississippi and has won the 2023 photography award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters.
