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Epilogue : Men of Appalachia

Epilogue : Men of Appalachia

I made several portraits of the men I met along these journeys, most of them during the second trip of ’93 when my travels took me trough the Rust Belt and the deep hollows of Appalachia. They were tobacco farmers, TVA power plant workers and security personnel, coal miners and drifters.

 

Pineville, West Virginia, 1993

Drifter, Beckley, West Virginia, 1993

Charles, TVA Security Officer, Douglas Dam, French Broad River, 1993

Chester, Bluff CIty, Tennessee, 1993

Wild Bill, TVA Shawnee Power Plant, Ohio River, 1993

Joseph, Newark, Ohio, 1993

Jason (“Stony”), Knoxville, Tennessee, 1993

James, TVA Shawnee Power Plant, Ohio River, 1993

Joseph, Somerset, Ohio, 1993

Kent, TVA Security Officer, Boone Dam, South Fork Holston RIver, 1993

Archie Rogers, Pineville, West Virginia, 1993

Roy Lee, Ford City, Alabama, 1993

Happy Hauser, Bluff City, Tennessee, 1993

The Angel (I), Kingsport, Tennessee, 1995

The Angel (II), Kingsport, Tennessee, 1995

The Angel (III), Kingsport, Tennessee, 1995

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