![]() The Lights succeed in respecting their subjects, intruding on their lives just enough to render a haunting profile of hardworking folks living on the margins." -Choice: Current Reviews For Academic Libraries. "Photographer Ken Light and writer Melanie Light rivet readers' attention on the landscape and lives of rural southern West Virginia in the first years of the 21st century - Coal Hollow belongs in the pantheon of great documentary projects of photo and text. This is the first complete showing of the Coal Hollow exhibition, with more than seventy of Ken Light's powerful photographs presented with accompanying oral histories and text by Melanie Light. Extreme poverty, welfare dependence, major diseases like "black lung" a sense of hopelessness about lost jobs and lost heritage is haunting the country"s most impoverished state. ![]() ![]() Daytona, FL, USA United States of Americaįor three years Ken Light photographed the death of the coal industry and its culture in the struggling mining communities and former coal company towns of West Virginia. ![]()
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