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May 19

We've been following documentary photographer Roger May on Twitter for quite some time now. As Appalachian natives, we were instantly connected to his still images.

Fifty years after President Johnson's "war on poverty," Roger is directing the Looking at Appalachia project that draws from a diverse population of photographers within the Appalachian region that hopes to develop a crowdsourced image archive to serve as a reference defined by Appalachia residents as opposed to its political legislation.