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The Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project 2015–2024

Forty years after the original Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project (KDPP), it has been reincorporated by Ted Wathen and Bob Hower. The goal of KDPP II is to extensively photograph again in each of Kentucky’s 120 counties. We are not so much concerned with re-photographing what was recorded forty years ago as we are with recording what is happening now.  In 2015, Hower and Wathen took several initial trips around the State to test the idea and feasibility of documenting Kentucky again, continually asking themselves: Is the idea still relevant and interesting, and is it doable? Those initial journeys lead them to conclude YES. Our concept is to look at Kentucky anew and to a hire a group of younger and more diverse photographers to work with us. They will be tasked with keeping the Project alive and reactivating it forty years from now. So far, joining Hower and Wathen are:

Carlos Bernate
Rachel Boillot
Jon Cherry
Kris Craig
Frank Döring
Hector Emanuel

Ross Gordon
Brittany Greeson
Harrison Hill
Gerry James
Amira Karaoud
Sarah Lyon

Reed Mattison
Pat McDonogh
John Nation
Julia Rendleman
Dane Rhys
Zed Saeed

John Sanderson
Alyssa Schukar
Nate Smallwood
Rob Southard
Jeff Swensen
Michael Swensen
Marvin Young

If our vision is realized, we will have been part of a photographic record of the State stretching from 1935 to 2055. This is visual history: how we lived, how we worked, how we dressed, how we relate to each other, what our world and Kentucky look like.

There is much left to be done. Will you help?

The images you see below help give a sense of where we are going in the project, but there is much yet to be done. Will you help us by contributing?

Yes, I’d like to help!
Superintendent David Gayhart, 61, of Dorton, Ky., patiently watches for the inspector and for his remaining miners to come out from underground at the office of Cheyenne Mining in Tram, Floyd County, Kentucky, on August 7, 2018. Gayhart has been a miner for roughly 41 years. ©2017 Brittany Greeson/Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project
Portrait of Santos M. Hart Co. KY. 2018 - Harrison Hill
Fog rolls into Munfordville.  Hart Co. KY. 2018 - Harrison Hill
Hickman KY.  2017 - Sarah Lyon
Aerial view of Surface Mining. Letcher County KY. 2015 - Ted Wathen
Pine Mountain. 2015 - Ted Wathen
Trimble County Power Plant. 2019 - Ted Wathen
Evening aerial landscapes shot while flying from near Carntown, Bracken County Kentucky to Louisville Kentucky. 2019 - Ted Wathen
Miss Mountain Mushroom Queen, Irvine, KY.  2018 - Alyssa Schukar
Stored Aluminum, Owensboro KY Riverport. 2015 - Ted Wathen
Hickman KY.  2017 - Sarah Lyon
Hickman Hardware. Fulton Co. KY. 2017 - Sarah Lyon
USS City of Hickman Doorway.  Fulton Co. KY.  2017 - Sarah Lyon
E.W. Brown Generating Station, near Harrodsburg, KY.  2018 - Alyssa Schukar
Mamaw Vanover Babysitting the Newborn. McCreary County, KY.  2019 - Rachel Boillot
Isaac and his Baby. McCreary County, KY.  2019 - Rachel Boillot
Main Street, Martin KY.  2018 - Brittany Greeson
Kayla Posing, Wheelwright KY.  2017 - Brittany Greeson
Sophia Watches a Video. Floyd County, KY.  2017 - Brittany Greeson
Church with Kudzu Vines. Harlan County, KY.  2018 - Ross Gordon

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The Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project is a non-profit ongoing enterprise making a contemporary visual record of Kentucky.

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Louisville, Kentucky 40204

The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, supports the Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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