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Jack Spencer (born 1951) is a self-taught American photographer. Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A photographer is a person who takes a Photograph using a Camera.

Spencer was born in Kosciusko and his first love was music, performing in rock bands making a recording. Kosciusko is a city in Attala County, Mississippi, United States. He is probably best know for his series, Native Soil that featured deep sepia tones combined with deep-South imagery. Spencer heavily manipulates his photographs in the darkroom.

Spencer's Lost Boys series came about because of abuse he saw in Nashville where a young boy Pel Gai was murdered in a nightclub there. Pel Gai is from the Southern part of Sudan and about 150 refugees were sent to Nashville after reaching a refugee camp in Kenya. Sudan (officially the Republic of Sudan) ( السودان al-Sūdān is a country in northeastern Africa. The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north Somalia to the northeast Tanzania to the south

Spencer's work was also included in The South By Its Photographers with many other Southern artists including Shelby Lee Adams, William Christenberry, and Melissa Springer. The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of Activities to do with creating Art, practicing the Arts and/or demonstrating Shelby Lee Adams (born 1950 is an American Environmental portrait Photographer and artist best known for his images of Appalachian family life William Christenberry (born November 5, 1936) is a Photographer, painter and sculptor who works with personal and somewhat mythical Melissa Springer is an American Photojournalist More than 50 magazines including Aperture, Elle, Forbes, Harpers Bazaar This exhibition was shown at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Columbia Museum of Art, and Louisiana Center for Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1951 the Birmingham Museum of Art today has one of the finest collections in the Southeast with more than 17000 paintings sculptures prints drawings and decorative arts The Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina's international art museum has a collection of European and American fine and decorative art that spans several centuries The exhibit spurred the careers of these photographers and was also made into a book by Susan Sipple Elliott. Spencer's work was also chosen to be in Picturing the South curated by Ellen Fleurov. Ellen Fleurov is an American Museum Curator and Photography Historian.

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