News
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Ginna’s work published at the Smithsonian Magazine
In March 2022, Virginia’s photographs and historical research on the Inner Passage was published as a feature article in the Smithsonian Magazine.
Read the Smithsonian piece “What the Haunting ‘Inner Passage’ Represented to the Enslaved”.
Visit the Smithsonian’s Instagram page featuring Ginna’s Inner Passage work for the week of March 21 - 27, 2022.
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‘Inner Passage’ received a National Ellie award for best photographic feature story
In March of 2023, the American Society of Magazine Editors awarded Ginna’s Inner Passage photographs a National Ellie award for best photographic feature story published in 2022.
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Two images chosen for the Second Annual Plein Air Exhibition (Juried Competition) at North Carolina Museum of Art
October, 2022:
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, Revēlō: Second Annual Plein Air Exhibition (Juried Competition)Works:
“Vennie Deas Moore, historian and native of South Carolina”
”Witness Tree on the Wadmalaw” -
2022 Gold Medal Prize, Lowell Thomas Competition, for photographs from The Inner Passage series that were published in in Smithsonian Magazine.
“History is today, in Virginia Richards’ wet plate collodion prints. Dripping trees and fading grave markers speak of a tragic past, when enslaved people were forced to dig the Inner Passage, a waterway from South Carolina to Florida. These sad, eerie photographs show viewers ancient oaks, or “witness trees” that “witnessed” historic events, and a “burnt church” that is hundreds of years old.”
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UNC Alumni Magazine Feature Article about The Inner Passage
In August of 2022, the UNC Carolina Alumni Review magazine wrote about Ginna’s documentary photography and her historical research on Lowcountry waterways and landscapes.