Portraits of the Great Recession

The North Carolina writer, Keith Flynn, and I spent 2 1/2 years documenting the effects of this great recession on an area of Appalachia within a 75 mile radius of Asheville. We interviewed and photographed nearly 100 people in Indian reservations, homeless camps, Baptist churches, gold stores, dirt race tracks, and dozens of other environments. You may see more of this at; Red Hawk Publications

PROSPERITY GOSPEL: PORTRAITS OF THE GREAT RECESSION, a collaboration with photographer Charter Weeks, directly from the publisher with free shipping! This is what Glenn Ruga, Founder & Director of The Social Documentary Network has said about the book: “Keith Flynn and Charter Weeks have added to the long tradition in the US of documenting the pitfalls of unbridled capitalism. From Lewis Hine photographing child labor in textile mills, to Walker Evans and James Agee publishing Let Us Now Praise Famous Men during the Great Depression, and to Eugene Richards documenting the decline of communities across the American West–Prosperity Gospel adds to this tradition with photographs and text that remind us that this nation is a land of opportunity for some and a land of hard work, low pay, and decaying communities for many.