David Wharton, since 1999, has been Director of Documentary Studies and an assistant professor of Southern studies in the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. His photographs have been exhibited throughout the United States, Latin America, and Europe, and he is the author of The Power of Belief: Spiritual Landscapes from the Rural South (George F. Thompson Publishing, 2016) and Small Town South (George F. Thompson Publishing, 2012), which respectively won the 2017 and 2013 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Photography, and The Soul of a Small Texas Town: Photographs, Memories, and History from McDade (University of Oklahoma Press, 2000).
