Limited Edition Print | Kennedi Carter

Kennedi Carter
Pluff Mud, 2025
Archival pigment print
Paper Size: 10 x 8 in.
Image Size: 8 x 6 3/8 in.
Edition of 15

Framed Option Specifications
Omega 78626 Black Frame
Mount to Foam
Standard White Matting, Window to Match Image Size, 12x14 in.
Non-glare Glass
Wire to Hang

About the Artwork:
Pluff Mud is a photographic meditation on the Hoodoo and conjure practices in the Low Country of the American South and part of a larger project focusing on the Gullah Geechee Nation. Through a visual exploration of spiritual and cultural ties between Black communities, the land, and the sea, this series aims to illuminate how ritual, belief, and ancestral memory endure—and even flourish—in the face of environmental vulnerability, cultural commodification, and historical disruption. Rooted in the landscapes of Georgia and South Carolina’s Sea Islands, the Carter's lens moves through rice fields, marshlands, and sacred waters to trace the spiritual resilience of a people whose identity remains inseparable from place.

Artist Bio:
Kennedi Carter (b. 1998) is a Durham, North Carolina–based artist whose practice centers on Black intimacy, memory, and the quiet, transformative moments within Black communal life. Working primarily in photography and archives, she uses personal and found images to explore how Blackness is held, remembered, and passed down through everyday gestures, familial stories, and intergenerational connection. Her work reflects on the softness and complexity of Black life—placing contemporary experiences in conversation with ancestral memory, and capturing the beauty found in both the ordinary and the ecstatic. Carter’s images serve as a meditation on the emotional and spiritual legacy of Black communities in the American South.

Her work has been exhibited at the RISD Museum (2022), the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (2024), Saatchi Gallery (2024), and the Harwood Museum of Art (2022), and has appeared in British Vogue (2020) and Atmos (2025).