Have you met Dave Anderson?
 
NPR recently extolled the virtues of the photographer/filmmaker’s work with a focus on his “SoLost,” series of short films commissioned by the Oxford American Magazine. Billed as “an off–kilter video journey through the side roads, back rooms, cellars and psyche of the modern South,” the series includes such memorable episodes as “Poor Monkey’s Juke Joint”, “Making Skillets at Lodge”, “William Eggleston Plays the Piano” and “Wayne White Goes Thrifting”. The entire SoLost series was a finalist in the video category for the 2010 National Magazine Awards.
 

Meanwhile, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine and Good Morning America recently ran glowing profiles on Anderson’s second monograph, One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds (Aperture, 2010). The book is the visual story of day-to-day life on one block in post-Katrina New Orleans; part hopeful, part heartbreaking. “What was lost was clear”, says Anderson of the situation in New Orleans, “but what could be recovered was not at all clear”.
 

Astonishingly, Dave’s immersion and success in photography has taken place in seven short years. Anderson worked in television in the 1990’s. He was in Washington, DC with the Clinton White House as Director of Television before being hired as a producer at MTV News and overseeing the Choose or Lose Bus, the cable-network sponsored multimedia extravaganza that traveled America and registered over a quarter of a million young people to vote during the 1996 election. However, since winning the Santa Fe Center for Photography’s Project Competition in 2005 for “Rough Beauty” a photo essay (and soon after a book) about Vidor, Texas, he has not put his cameras down.

Anderson’s work can be found in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Washington DC’s Corcoran Gallery and in the pages of Esquire, Stern and ESPN among others.
 

And now they are here at Renee Rhyner & Co. too. So, meet Dave Anderson.