Racine, Ohio Cheshire, Ohio Hey folks. I’ve been posting a lot of images and outtakes from last year’s visit to SE Ohio, the start of Plume. I am currently on the road to finish the project. I just finished attending a residency program in this region, Harold Arts (mad thanks to the folks who run [...]
Ann and Her Grandson Frank Tennyson Frank Tennyson Frank Tennyson Reverend in Pomeroy Mural Painters in Point Pleasant, Ohio Woman Outside of Subway, Pomeroy, Ohio Veteran’s Appreciation Day New Haven, West Virginia Woman with Dogs in Middletown, Ohio Robin In Cheshire (alternate version)
Middleport is a small town, appropriately in between Racine and Cheshire along the Ohio River. Suffering from the same economic afflictions as the rest of the River Valley, people make money however they can. I ran across Jim and Vicky Taylor in an old middle school one day, where they had set up shop as [...]
Cindy Parker, who runs Healing Heart Herbals, is my generous Ohio host and community liaison. Previous post. I met up with Elisa Young a few times last summer. Her family has a long history in the region, and Elisa lives on a farm inherited from them. Noticing patterns of disease and environmental degradation, she quickly [...]
Al Proffitt, from Plume Last summer I was driving down a back road in Cheshire and I drove past a house that felt really familiar. I realized a few seconds later that it was Al Proffitt‘s farm. I visited Al a few years ago when I made my first SE Ohio trip. He was fighting [...]
The above image represents an atypical landscape in Appalachian Ohio. I hesitate to start off the series with this image, but even I, a humble man, can’t ignore its power. To be clear, McMansions are not a common sight in the hills of Southeast Ohio. Presumably the owner of this home works for the coal [...]
Plume is a photographic exploration of Southeast Ohio and its unusually dense concentration of coal-fired power plants. The project serves as a follow-up to the work I made in 2007 in Appalachia, Removing Mountains, which focused on mountaintop removal, a particularly pervasive form of coal mining. Plume follows this coal up river to Ohio, where [...]
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