McNair Evans uses photography to capture evocative and thought-provoking images.
His first monograph, Confessions for a Son, was pre-released at the 2014 New York Art Book Fair and sold out within months. McNair received a BA at Davidson College. He earned his Masters in Fine Arts in photography from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. His work is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, and Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, among others. His awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, the Innovation in Documentary Arts Award from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University, and the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship. Presently, he is working on a series titled, Passenger-Portraits, where he travels on trains across the country capturing passenger-written personal accounts and photographs capturing their essences.