“At first glance, the photographs in Gortemiller’s Do the Priest in Different Voices are hard to decipher – a mishmash of seemingly dissonant visual elements that form a surreal or Magical Realist image: strange, disturbing and funny all at once. Underneath reside common themes central to art in the South: memory, mythology, family and place” (Richard McCabe). Maury Gortemiller’s most profound childhood memory is reading a family bible whose illustrations, Renaissance and Baroque paintings, moved him to contemplate the unseen. Ambivalent towards the established narratives, he is enthralled by the semblance of the mythical in the mundane: objects and situations alternately ineffable, laughable and terrifying.