HONORING AMERICA'S
COAL MINERS:

This current project continues to use 8x10 contact prints to compose portraiture of America’s people, this time the coal miners of Appalachia. Abandoning the bright colors of the Native American photographs, the tonal spectrum present in each of these works helps to reveal the human essence of the coal industry and honor the men and women who work in the mines.

When the Sago Mine accident occurred shortly after we moved to West Virginia, I realized that I now lived in the heart of coal mining country, and that these brave men and women were unsung American heroes.

This project is a work in progress, one which I hope will put a human face on coal mining.