6 PLACE FUELING STORIES & CULTURE This spring, The MAX is excited to present Thank You Please Come Again: How Gas Stations Feed & Fuel the American South, an exhibition of photographs by Kate Medley. The exhibition offers audiences an opportunity to experience, firsthand, the photographs from Medley’s award-winning book by the same title. Featured by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN, among others, Thank You Please Come Again was named a Book We Love in 2024 by National Public Radio, won the 2024 Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters prize in photography, and was a finalist for a James Beard Award. Kate Medley is a visual journalist who covers national news across the American South and focuses on storytelling and environmental portraiture, often exploring issues of social justice and the shifting politics of this region. She regularly contributes to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. A native of Mississippi now based in North Carolina, Medley traveled across the South, logging thousands of miles across 11 states over 10 years, making some 150 stops at gas station grills, buffets, and quick marts. Kate Medley, Gizzards and Livers Store, Wilson, North Carolina, 2018.
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