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GOTHAMVILLE is a haunting visual exploration of Nashville, Tennessee, spanning from 2017 to 2024. This 400-page photobook delves into the urban nocturne, presenting stark, full-bleed black and white portraits that capture the city’s denizens in a brooding, noir style. From the iconic Lower Broadway to the hidden honky-tonks and shadowy back alleys, Michael Ray Nott’s lens reveals a Gotham-like world teeming with heroes, villains, and femme fatales. These photographs, devoid of written text, weave a narrative of thought and emotion, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in the enigmatic and timeless essence of Nashville’s moody atmosphere.

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Photo on exhibition as part of the Frist Art Museum’s blockbuster Stories Strings show.

Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art is the first exhibition to explore the instrument’s symbolism in American art from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Featuring over one hundred works of art and dozens of exceptional instruments, the exhibition will demonstrate that guitars figure prominently in the visual stories Americans tell about themselves.

May 26–Aug 13, 2023 | Ingram Gallery

Book Release

Good Morning America: How are ya!

Rise and shine! Immerse yourself in the political and social landscape of our time.
These raw black and white images, shot in the streets of Nashville over four years, are a study in contrast---people, events, opinions--photographs which bear witness to this place and this time in America.
Time to wake up.

Book Review by streetphotography.com

Good Morning America: Street Photographer Michael Ray Nott Offers A Powerful Visual Insight Into Contemporary USA

History, some say, is the mirror of the moment. Maybe we could also say that street photography is an equally important visual mirror of a particular historical era, or socio-economic and/or geographical reality? The two, for me, are not mutually exclusive.

At Zeitgeist Gallery

NASHVILLE NOW: New Photographers, New Work features nine still and moving documentary photographers working in Nashville, TN. Capturing moments of everyday life, anticipation of moments yet to come, acts of activism and debauchery. These nine artists share their vision of Nashville Now.