Along the back roads, state roads and highways throughout Kentucky, smaller communities and towns are dying out, the inhabitants moving to larger cities and towns where they can hopefully find work. Houses and farms are abandoned, clothes left hanging in closets, toys weathering in unkept yards. In small towns, whole blocks of storefronts sit empty, becoming more derelict with each passing season.

And yet, in those same small towns, you’ll find people who persevere and are quite happy. They find joy in their family and friends, some in their faith, others bellied up to a bar telling tales that get taller with each telling. I am looking to tell a few of these stories through the photographs.



This is just a small sample of the work. It is all shot on black & white film with an old Hasselblad. I have a digital “shoebox” where I store everything I decide to scan. Some of it’s good, some not so, but it’s all Kentucky.

I stopped updating the “shoebox” at the end of 2019 due to rising costs. Still though, there are roughly ten years worth of images there.

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