David Y. Lee presents to ACP students
David Y. Lee, a freelancer from Washington, D.C., arrived on Wednesday and will stay for the remainder of the workshop, serving as our final critiquer on Thursday night. “I came here because a lot of people gave me a lot throughout my career,” Lee says. Acting on his words, he drove to Lewisburg in between [...]
ACP and High Rocks pair up for a photo adventure
This year, ACP is partnering with High Rocks, a well-respected leadership program for girls in southern West Virginia, and as part of that partnership, five High Rocks high school age girls worked with WKU students for an afternoon of one-on-one shooting in downtown Lewisburg. Before heading out in the steady cold rain, instructor Josh Meltzer [...]
American Heritage Dance Hall
The American Heritage Dance Hall in Ronceverte, WV has been a labor of love that has been able to flourish because of the dedication of a few individuals. They took an abandoned roller rink and transformed it into a social hotspot through donations and hard work. The dance hall hosts open band jams every Tuesday [...]
Asa Black follows Michael Rivera
Labbie Asa Black followed ACP participant Michael Rivera out into the field on Tuesday to experience and document his method of finding and shooting a photo story. After touring and shooting features at Organ Cave in nearby town Ronceverte, Michael’s curiosity led to a family farm where they experienced a checkup of a newborn calf [...]
Meet the Participants and Staff
The 2011 Appalachian Cultural project is coached by WKU Photojournalist-in-Residence Josh Meltzer and Washington, D.C. freelancer Mike Kleinfeld. Six Labbies joined the group to assist with cooking for the group, producing and publishing to the website and archiving the entire previous 8 years of stories from ACP, and 11 shooters from Meltzer’s Picture Story class [...]
High Rocks
Labbies went to the High Rocks Lodge in Pocahontas County. They listened in on group discussions and got a better idea of the organization that ACP is partnering with. Dorothy, Danny and Elizabeth helped with little tasks around the lodge and got to know some of the High Rocks and AmeriCorps staff members. Participant Shelby [...]
First Days, First Images
ACP students are challenged to find single feature images in addition to the stories that they pursue during the intensive week in Lewisburg, WV. //
Day Two
Shooters were in and out all day Tuesday tracking down leads for their stories and finding features along the way. Later in the evening, everyone met back up at the house for a presentation put on Mike Kleinfeld who spoke about his multimedia work and freelance career in Washington, D.C., offering suggestions on what shooters [...]
Freelancer Mike Kleinfeld presents
On the second full day of the workshop, participants were in and out of the house from sunrise to early evening shooting features and making great strides developing their stories. Crew and shooters gathered together after a labbie-made taco dinner for a presentation by ACP coach Mike Kleinfeld, an Ohio University grad and freelancer currently [...]
Behind the scenes
On the first full day of the workshop, participants researched their stories and labbies prepared the work site for the week. In the afternoon, Sarah Riley, the director of High Rocks, led a discussion with the photographers about visual stereotyping and the perceptions that the community here might have of photographers, and those preconceptions that [...]
The Appalachian Cultural Project is a photojournalism project made up of students in the Picture Stories class (JOUR 334) at Western Kentucky University. The Appalachian Cultural Project is designed to promote the education of Western Kentucky University photojournalism students, while respectfully documenting the people and culture of the diverse Appalachian region.
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David Y. Lee presents to ACP students
David Y. Lee, a freelancer from Washington, D.C., arrived on Wednesday and will stay for the remainder of the workshop, serving as our final critiquer on Thursday night. “I came here because a lot of people gave me a lot throughout my career,” Lee says. Acting on his words, he drove to Lewisburg in between [...]
ACP and High Rocks pair up for a photo adventure
This year, ACP is partnering with High Rocks, a well-respected leadership program for girls in southern West Virginia, and as part of that partnership, five High Rocks high school age girls worked with WKU students for an afternoon of one-on-one shooting in downtown Lewisburg. Before heading out in the steady cold rain, instructor Josh Meltzer [...]
American Heritage Dance Hall
The American Heritage Dance Hall in Ronceverte, WV has been a labor of love that has been able to flourish because of the dedication of a few individuals. They took an abandoned roller rink and transformed it into a social hotspot through donations and hard work. The dance hall hosts open band jams every Tuesday [...]
Asa Black follows Michael Rivera
Labbie Asa Black followed ACP participant Michael Rivera out into the field on Tuesday to experience and document his method of finding and shooting a photo story. After touring and shooting features at Organ Cave in nearby town Ronceverte, Michael’s curiosity led to a family farm where they experienced a checkup of a newborn calf [...]
Meet the Participants and Staff
The 2011 Appalachian Cultural project is coached by WKU Photojournalist-in-Residence Josh Meltzer and Washington, D.C. freelancer Mike Kleinfeld. Six Labbies joined the group to assist with cooking for the group, producing and publishing to the website and archiving the entire previous 8 years of stories from ACP, and 11 shooters from Meltzer’s Picture Story class [...]
High Rocks
Labbies went to the High Rocks Lodge in Pocahontas County. They listened in on group discussions and got a better idea of the organization that ACP is partnering with. Dorothy, Danny and Elizabeth helped with little tasks around the lodge and got to know some of the High Rocks and AmeriCorps staff members. Participant Shelby [...]