Daniel Shea
Daniel Shea's work focuses on the coal mining country of West Virginia and Southeastern Ohio. He photographs the lives of the workers and the affects of mountaintop removal, where the top oh hills and mountains is blasted off in order to access the coal veins deep within.
These photographs are very desolate to me, both in subject matter and in the formal aspects of the photographs, such as the lack of bright energetic colors. They represent both a place that is aging due to a decline in the industry and of the destructive processes that are used in order to mine coal.
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