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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
ACP students are challenged to find single feature images in addition to the stories that they pursue during the intensive week in Lewisburg, WV. //
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 [...]
Landscapes made on the first day of the workshop in and around Lewisburg, WV and Greenbreier and Pocahontas Counties. SlideShowPro({ attributes: { id: “album-120″, width: 910, height: 606 }, mobile: { auto: false }, params: { bgcolor: “#000000″, allowfullscreen: true }, flashvars: { xmlFilePath: “http://acpworkshop.org/slideshowpro/images.php?album=120″ } });
After 8 years in Whitesburg, KY, the ACP Workshop has relocated to Lewisburg, West Virginia where 19 Western Kentucky University photojournalism students arrived on March 5 to begin a week of storytelling in the Pocahontas and Greenbreier county region. This year the workshop is partnering with High Rocks, an award-winning leadership program for girls between [...]