“I’m going to start from the very beginning with a body of work called The Working Spirit...that is a project that I’ve worked on for 17 or 18 years...it came out of my ten tear experience of

About six years ago, a student brought back some photographs of an area I hadn’t seen before...she knew I was photographing working people, and she wondered wether I would want to photograph in a

“In fact, the coal industry has actually picked up a little bit recently due to the demands of the electric power plants.”

“I was actually a little bit nervous about photographing people there because I didn’t know how they would respond to me...”