The Prosperity Gospel

“The Prosperity Gospel” is a project done in collaboration with the writer, Keith Flynn, documenting the effects of the Great Recession on the individual lives of people living in Appalachia, within a 75 mile radius of Asheville, North Carolina. We have been in homeless camps, tobacco sheds, dirt racetracks, gun shops and Baptist churches.

I like to say photography keeps yesterday safe for tomorrow. We hope this document will become an important record of our time.

panAFRICAproject: Kenya

by Lou Jones

Reviving the momentum of www.panAFRICAproject.org before COVID19, my team returned recently to Kenya, the fifteenth country in this overly ambitious project. Using the “universal language” of photography, the mission is to counter the negative, neocolonial misconceptions promulgated by western media. We document country by country, modern, contemporary Africa to provide a visual compendium for usage by institutions,

Summer 2022

Pond Glyphs

by William Betcher

These images are a selection of the work that I have done on a Maine pond over the last 4 years, ranging from the first appearance of lily leaves in early May to lilies frozen just below the surface in late November. I call these macro (close-in) shots “pond glyphs,” since the decaying leaves show tracks reminiscent of ancient writing.

Fall/Winter 2010

Shoreline

by Alison Shaw

Click an image to enlarge Artist’s Statement: Having Martha’s Vineyard as my primary subject matter for more than 40 years certainly comes with many rewards, but also with its share of challenges. In the years that I’ve spent photographing these 100 square miles, I’ve constantly had to push myself to see the island anew. Sometimes

Spring 2018

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