Anthracite

This is a book that I wasn't expecting to happen. I had no project planned, and yet one happened.

The book is called Anthracite and it was taken on a visit to the Pennsylvania town of Shamokin. It's a town I believed to be broken down, barely scraping by. But I was wrong about that.

What I found was a town very much alive. It was a town far more walkable than the city in which I live. Without a college or tourist industry to prop it up, this town has found a way to keep itself thriving.

This is not a cute village with a revitalized downtown. It's a town still digging itself out of its own history. But it is surviving, and I think it will survive.

The book is maybe a bit different from most photography books. But then, maybe we need that sometimes.

Color + B/W, film photography and collage
64 pages; perfect bound; 8"x6.88"