Issue 7 of SOUTHERN EXPOSURE focuses on origin stories and how they establish the preconditions that support the motives of their creators. This issue is about the power of stories, even when they are lies. With imagery inspired by motifs of Soviet propaganda, neoclassicism, and the State Flag of Alabama (itself an intentional derivative of a Confederate Battle Flag), “Fatherland” explores the way the history is written and re-written to create a form of propaganda, and a means by which we we justify our worst instincts.

The zine is 24 pages, 8x8”