Shelby on her grandmother’s car, Mount Vernon, Georgia, 2008. “All these people who run around screaming that the Confederate flag is racist, they’re not stupid. They’re ignorant. Because ignorance is the absence of really knowing what happened. I am...

Gaia Squarci
Gaia Squarci is a photographer, videographer and writer who divides her time between Milan and New York, where she teaches Digital Storytelling at ICP. Gaia is a contributor of Prospekt, an IWMF fellow and National Geographic grantee. Her photography has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Time Magazine, Vogue, The Guardian, Internazionale, The Washington Post, among others.