The High's latest photography exhibit 'Truth Told Slant' takes an oblique approach to complex issues

The title of the High Museum of Art’s latest photography exhibition, “Truth Told Slant,” was inspired by Emily Dickinson’s poem “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.” In the exhibit, five emerging photographers have documented the world around them in unique and personal ways.

“City Lights” producer Summer Evans spoke with the High’s photography curator Gregory Harris about how these photographs address issues less “head-on.”

“They all come at their topic from an angle – they all take a kind of oblique approach to these complicated issues,” said Harris. The photographs explore issues of race and inequality, identity and sexual orientation, immigration and globalization, youth and coming of age, climate change and environmental justice, and violence.