I made these pictures on a trip to document a protest action led by Coal River Mountain Watch, in Whitesville, WV, in March, 2009. I was drawn to the faces of the people of the community - the protesters and townsfolk. I wanted to make pictures that affirmed them in their walk in life - not so much in their particular cause - righteous or not. I felt that I should strive to make the pictures as uninflected and straight-forward as I could, that I should trust that what was within the frame of the camera, at my eye, was enough - perhaps that it was all I could know for sure.

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