“We can concern ourselves with presence rather than with phantom, image rather than with conjure. Bad as it is, the world is potentially full of good photographs. But to be good, photographs have to be full of the world.” — Dorothea Lange and Daniel Dixon, Photographing the Familiar: A Statement […]
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Editor’s Note: Roger May is an Appalachian photographer and director of Looking at Appalachia, a crowd-sourced photo series. Below is a selection of images from the series meant to show the diversity of the project’s submissions, with a foreword by May. Friends, The Looking at Appalachia project was launched in […]
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Local Objects, Tim Carpenter, The Ice Plant, 2017. Not a single soul fills any of the 74 photographs in “Local Objects,” but each one speaks from the soul of the photographer to the soul of the viewer. This is a beautiful song that could only be written by someone with […]
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I moved back home to West Virginia at the end of January this year. It was a tumultuous time in my personal life, never mind the charged political landscape of both the nation and state. My last day of work in North Carolina was a Friday, and I had my […]
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