Vanessa with Kittens,'09
Pigs Feet, '93
Measuring Space and Giving Recognition
Advocate and push yourself, measuring and expanding your inner acceptance of all humanity. This defines you, and more importantly, helps some unrecognized people to have a better place in this world. By simply being present, acknowledging equally, and sharing, we create and define better living for each other.
Shelby Lee Adams
Lincoln, Maw and Shorty, '92
James and Clapper, '06
Chester with Hounds, '92
Children with Blind Horse, '08
Sherman with Hog's Head, '92"We enjoy having you here and having things done we never had before. Ain’t no way we see it any other way, we see it only in a good way. If anything, your pictures help, more than anything. You let the people have the books and they enjoy seeing thereselves in the books and what you write up. They always somebody that’s goin' to be against you in everything, don’t care what you do. Your work is original. It’s real life and it’s the way we live. People away from here, they got all they need in life, they got new homes, new cars. They don’t know what it is to live a poor person’s life. People enjoys livin' from day to day, makin' it on their own, not out here crookin' somebody or stealin' something to make it; just makin' it, surviving on their own. That’s the way Kentucky people are. We just enjoy doin it, because it’s everyday things. If I go out here today and make enough to survive to the next day, I’m tickled to death. Long as I’ve got dinner on the table for my family. If I tell a man something, I tell the truth. I don’t lie."
Sherman Jacobs
October '07
Sherman, '08
Wade, '05
Paul with Rabbit, '06
Eric with Spike the Rooster, '99
Angelia with Banty Rooster, '03
Gobel with Puppy, '83
Brice and Crow on Porch, '92 [with Puppies]
Cody and Tank, '04
Billy and Bethany with Coon Skins, '04
4x5 Polaroids shared with family showing some of the compositions made before film was exposed.
The Blind Serpent Handler, '87
Gracie Serpent Handling, '86"The spirit is something you can't hardly explain. The feeling of the spirit of the Lord can't be explained without you having the spirit in your soul. It is a good feeling - it's a feeling too good to explain! Just like in heaven, you can't even wash the spirit of the Lord out of your hands. The spirit is something great. I've had the spirit in my arms, in my whole body. I've had it so much, I feel so weak I could fall out. I have to sit down sometimes. I feel so weak in the Lord- I'm in the spirit! If you understand the spirit of the Lord, it's not weakness or sickness but meekness in the spirit."
Gracie Holland, Happy, Kentucky
Gracie Serpent Handling, '87[Two Timber Rattlesnakes]
Student- Marc Culp's photograph taken during the making of
"Gracie Serpent Handling," 1986
Holiness Boy with Serpent Box and Poison Jar, '87
Serpent Box, 1986
Carrie LeeAnne, '03
Donnie with Baby and Cows, '99
Nancy with Parakeets, '04
Tyler and Sheba, '01
Sheba Asleep, 07
Shithead the Pony with the Noble Family, '03
Larry in Garage, '04
Bert with Guitar, '92 [cat and dog]
Jane with Diddles, '94
The Cock Fighter, '89
Lila and the Goose, '03
Enos holding Snapping Turtles, '07
Tammy with Catfish, '03
Larry with Goat, '05
Eagle's Nest, '04
Freddie with 38-Year-Old Retired Mule, '05
Anne with Pigeon, '95
Reed with Pony and Chicken, '95
Peggy and Albert, '99
Aunt Glade with Tom, '73
Grandpa's Last Hog Killing, '73
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