Edwin D. Averette III

BFA ’20 Photography

Edwin Averette is from Vanceboro, NC, and is working towards a primary BFA with concentrations in Photography and Graphic Design, and a secondary BA in Anthropology, with an expected graduation in 2021. He is obtaining a Cultural Resources Management certificate as he is strongly influenced in his photographic work by Archaeology such as looking into anthropological structural systems regarding families, land, cemeteries, and homesteads. He specializes in large format composited aerial imagery on archival inkjet prints. He has participated in local and regional exhibitions and has received a Congressional Letter of Recognition and an Award in Merit in Photography in exhibitions.

Artist Statement

Several years ago, I met with individuals that were generations older than myself. They showed me their family albums. Within those albums were family portraits of every generation of the family. This body of work, Familial, highlights the American Family Cemetery as the surviving entity of the generations before us in this Eastern North Carolina landscape. They are constructed environments in everchanging context through interactions during and after their occupation. These burial grounds are essentially their own family portrait, not of just one generation, but all of them.