About the Project | Images

For the past fifteen years, while living in Maine during the summers, I have been photographing and learning about rural poverty. Isolation and the lack of transportation are major problems, but the need for a livable wage, affordable housing and health care are the same desperate concerns as those of poor people living in urban areas.

To gain access into the homes and the lives of people is the most difficult to accomplish—credibility, passion to tell the story, and the joy of creating a true-to-life scene are essential qualities to have in documentary photography. Along with humanistic attitudes are the important uses of composition, lighting, expression and, of course, that unknown something else, the mystery of energy that makes the image come alive.

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