Lincoln, and then I’ll be moving to the greater Cincinnati area. I’m looking to find editorial and commercial work while pursuing personal projects. In the meantime, I plan to continue working with Someday I’ll Find the Sun, shooting with the families that have been so accommodating over the course of this project. I’m also in the process of working on sequencing and editing this work in the format of a book. In addition to Someday I’ll Find the Sun, I have a second project that I began about a year ago. In A Place to Fall, which is currently in-progress, I focus on a group of teenage boys as they transition from teenagers to adults. Given that I’ve built relationships with so many of my subjects here in Lincoln, I plan to travel back over the next few years to work on both projects.
Are there any words of wisdom you’d like to pass along? There’s something that Appalachian author David Joy said in Digging In The Trash: How Poor Southerners Are Seen, an interview on NPR with Lulu Garcia-Navarro, that’s stuck with me. “I think that you should read broadly, and I think that you should read things that make you uncomfortable. And I think you should experience things that are outside of your norm because all of those things challenge us. And they force us to ask hard questions. And the minute you start to ask hard questions, I think you start to understand the world in a more enlightening fashion.”
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