Intimate photos of working-class life In Appalachia:
Still, even after a few years in the industry, something seemed amiss, causing her to feel disillusioned with her creative work. In 2010, she decided to pursue her broadest project to date, setting her sights on the rolling hills and Smoky Mountains of an often misunderstood terrain.
“I took a step back to see what I really wanted from photography,” Stacy says. “I realized my work had been living on the surface of an idea and I wanted to make work that lived the actual idea.” Over the last 12 years, Stacy traveled through parts of Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia to examine how photography can reinforce and debunk deep-rooted biases. Rather than portraying Appalachia as poverty-stricken or selectively focusing on its positive aspects, she sought to capture the complexity of rural, working-class life from a nuanced viewpoint. “Something about asserting right and wrong onto a work inevitably makes me hate it,” Stacy says.
Recalling a classic colonial chronology, the book is divided into multiple chapters: Arrival, Exploration, Extraction, Mutiny and Salvation. Stacy modeled this narrative structure after a catalog of paintings about Daniel Boone, a frontiersman who encouraged westward expansion into present-day Kentucky and incessant brutality against Native Americans.
“If you take mining out of here, do you think Walmart is going to stay?” one passage asks. “Do you think any of these places are going to stay with just minimum wage jobs? You better thank a miner, because without them this place would be a ghost town.”
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