The American Civil War will forever fascinate me, not just the battlefield glory but the politics that ground this American experiment in democracy to a halt 150 years ago.
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Outtakes from the most recent edit of Like An Echo. Some of these are beloved but just did not fit the narrative I was trying to say at the moment.
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Proud to announce my photo on the cover of the recent anthology Appalachian Reckoning. The photo was taken while working in conjunction with Looking At Appalachia and on my long-term personal project Like An Echo. Appalachian Reckoning was published in response to J.D. Vance’s #1 New York Times Bestseller Hillbilly Elegy.
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The quiet moments of winter in Garfield, County Colorado.
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New photography work published for Education Week. Proud to play a part of a larger initiative that launched in October to help better understand the role of education in the, as many say, current American civics crisis.
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My editor at Education Week recently emailed me a handful of PDFs from a long-range project, Citizen Z, I worked on with the publication along with a few assignments.
Thanks for taking a look.
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Look past reminders of modern-day, and it’s easy to imagine this view of the Miller House under construction in the winter of 1901. The snow and ice-packed streets of the Whittier neighborhood take on the look of how roads in the first few days of the 20th century looked, rutty and muddy.
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One of my oldest friends, Greg, called on a Friday morning. Ryan had left all of us too soon.
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Cheers to Stella Blue, the 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Though sold, a few years ago, this vehicle provided 197,000 miles of misadventure from Appalachia to southern Utah to northern Arizona. It rolled along in every condition, help crawl all over the Colorado Rockies, explored the Wyoming and Montana territories into the grander Pacific Northwest.
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Worst breed in the house—that’s exactly the breed I want: A dog that’s better outdoors than indoors. A dog that can handle snow drifts and scree fields, that’s smart enough to avoid guy lines and porcupines, and that has enough drive to walk uphill all day.
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Editing archives for mood, an overall feeling. This frame is not going to make the final cut but just think, it probably would have lived on a hard drive if not for social. Deep.
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The Rockies are therefore very young and should never be thought of as ancient. They are still in the process of building and eroding, and no one today can calculate what they will look like ten million years from now. They have the extravagant beauty of youth, the allure of adolescence, and they are mountains to be loved.
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The battleship illustrated was on a mission to draw artillery fire from entrenched Confederates at Vicksburg, Mississippi. As the Confederates spent their dwindling ammunition reserves, the Union naval officers celebrated their broadcasted fakeout, the ship was a hoax, made of wood.
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My grandparents worked two shifts in the now-demolished Burlington hosiery mill, my grandmother took the later shift so she could fish in the mornings, and my grandfather tackled assigned shifts and picked up all the hours his body would allow.
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Optimism is our instinct to inhale while suffocating. Our need to declare what “needs to be” in the face of what is. Optimism is not uncool; it is rebellious and daring and vital.
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Growing up in a military family was an adventure. Endless highway miles and countless hours watching the country rush past was the norm. Days Inn parking lots stretch big and broad across this great land. My grandparents, we called them mam-maw & pap-paw, lived in the house pictured above and would stay up to greet us at the door. It usually played out the same.
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The smokestacks of the Kingston Fossil Plant, managed by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the town of Kingston, TN have dominated the small town's skyline since the 1950s.
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There are hidden valleys and hidden coves among the folds of the great hills where a man can catch a glimpse of Eden.
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My pap-paw Pete Armes, 91, gets a haircut from lifetime Franklin, North Carolina resident Ronnie Dills. Dills has been cutting hair for 45 years, 43 in this location and generations of residents have pulled up a seat for a trim.
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