100 DAYS IN APPALACHIA Photography Project

There's way more to the story.

100 Days in Appalachia was a movement born from the 2016 Presidential Election. When national media turned to Appalachia for answers, my friends & I grabbed our cameras to tell our own stories. One photo a day for the first hundred days of our new normal.

I returned to this challenge two more times in 2018 and again in 2020 to push technique and document the way the world's been changing.

A young woman stands in a dark, decorated basement, staring at stickers on the rafters, surrounded by colorful balloons that cover the floor.
After the Show, 2017
A young person with dark hair and a customized leather jacket blows a big smoke cloud from a cigarillo in a field of tall plants with red tips.
Adaam, 2017
White Supremacists & Nazis fail to fill the pen made for them by the cops in Pikeville, KY in 2017. They are outnumbered 3:1.
All You Fascists Bound to Lose, 2017
A young shirtless person hangs in the air with their arms spread above a wooded lake after releasing their grip on a rope swing.
The Rope Swing at Carr Fork Lake, 2018
A large replaceable letter sign reads "INTERNET" outside Whitesburg, KY.
Amenities, 2018
A massive crowd lights a dark stadium with their cell phones.
Lit By Phones, 2018
Two handmade signs in an upstairs window read "BREONNA SHOULD BE ALIVE" and "BLACK TRANS LIVES MATTER" in downtown Corbin, KY
BREONNA SHOULD BE ALIVE, 2020
A sign taped to a United States Postal Service vehicle with big red tape asks people to adhere to CDC guidelines for social distancing.
That's One Solution, 2020
Two feet wearing pink & blue shoes rest in front of an open moving truck.
Moving Day, 2020
Three 100 Days in Appalachia photobooks by e.m.i.
100 DAYS IN APPALACHIA, sameness & difference, and 300 DAYS IN APPALACHIA, the three photobooks from each 100 Days in Appalachia project