The Abandoned, people, places, and belongings that once mattered, are now unremembered, out of mind, left behind. Items once significant to someone, personal items, buildings, objects, persons, a place that once had importance to another, the possibilities are all around us.

Our Juror, Richard McCabe, is a curator, photographer, and writer based in New Orleans. He was born in England and grew up in the American South. In 1998, he received an MFA in Studio Art from Florida State University. Since 2010, he has been the Curator of Photography at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. He has organized and curated over thirty exhibitions including: Seeing Beyond the Ordinary, The Mythology of Florida, The Rising, Eudora Welty: Photographs from the 1930s – 40s, The Colourful South, Self-Processing: Instant Photography, Memory is a Strange Bell: The Art of William Christenberry and New Southern Photography.