Johnathon Kelso is an Atlanta based artist who made his start in photography while living in Memphis, Tennessee in 2004. His work for the past four years has concentrated on documenting varying expressions of Christianity in the South. Kelso is currently working on a I Want to Die AShouting, documenting Sacred Harp singing communities in the Georgia and Alabama and “As God is my witness,a project mingling visions from Gone with the Wind alongside modern day Southerners trying to come to grips with their Confederate heritage.. Today we share Johnathon’s series titled I Want to Die A-Shouting. I Want to Die A-Shouting “And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God, the Almighty reigns.” In 1844, B.F. White and E.J. King published the Sacred Harp, a songbook that became the premier repository of shapenote songs in the South. “Shapenote” or “fasola” singing employs a distinctive musical notation of four shapes (triangle, circle, square, …
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