The PA Project

With co-phootgrapher Linda Johnson, we began the Pennsylvania Project (www.thepennsylvaniaproject.com) in August of 2001, in part as an aesthetic investigation--how do two photographers see the same thing differently?--and in part because we were, and remain, astonished at the span of cultures found within these 67 counties. In 1992 James Carville's assessment was that the state was: "Philadelphia and Pittsburgh...with Alabama in between." Pennsylvania's agrarian, industrial past, memorialized in places like the The Eckley Miners' Village, in Weatherly, PA, is giving way to an unknown future. We are trying, through our photographs, to witness this evolution. The process is one that Carville may be as interested in watching as we are in documenting. The paired images are as Linda and I intend these images to be viewed. They appear this way at our web site.