Organized by the High Museum of Art, this exhibition is part of the "Picturing the South" commission series, representing one of the most distinctive and internationally significant aspects of the High's growing photography collection. Alec Soth is the sixth photographer to have been commissioned in this series.

Previous participants have included Dawoud Bey, Emmet Gowin, Sally Mann, Richard Misrach and Alex Webb. This exhibition explores spiritual and hermetic life in the rural South including studies that represent a variety of nature subjects, examples of manmade intervention (tree houses, forts, cabins and tents) and portraits (hermits, monks, campers and survivalists).

Inspired by Flannery O'Connor, Soth creates photographs that are full of warmth and humor with narrative elements that are suggestive of Southern Gothic literature.