Adam Shemper's Light in These Hills: Oxford, Mississippi...show us how the present moment so easily slips into the past, where once quotidian details now echo with the nostalgia for a time irretrievably gone. Most importantly, they open ways of understanding, holding up a mirror to illuminate questions that compel us to see the essentials of who we were, who we are, and who we might yet become. --Jared Ragland, former White House photo editor & documentary photographer