Monday May 9th Woke up as the crack of dawn this morning to drive into Louisville from visiting family in Columbus. Got into town around 9 am and checked into my Airbnb off Bardstown Rd. in the Highlands. Seems like a pretty nice area, different from my stay in right in Downtown last time I […]
Nate Smallwood. Trip 1 to Louisville, March and April 2022
March 31st 2022 So here went nothing. I talked to Bob a few days ago and got the green light to head down Kentucky way and haven’t been this excited for a project in a long time. I stopped in Columbus to visit some family splitting the drive in half, a much easier 3hrs & […]
Nate Smallwood. Lexington, Kentucky, July 2022
Sunday July 3 2022 Rolled into town early this morning and started to get my bearings and the layout of the city somewhat into perspective. My only other trips for KDPP had been to Louisville – a drastically different city in many regards. Initial passes through different neighborhoods gave me an idea of places to […]
People Working
I’m always interested in people at work. I began to think a lot about fast food workers and wonder about their lives – and so I made some efforts to photograph them. They are mostly kids and put on big smiles when you face them with a camera. The Sonic Drive In I went to was […]
Police Work
In Paducah I arrange to ride with the Police Department. I’m paired with Officer Kelly Drew but we had a fair amount of contact with the other officers on that shift as well. Kelly amazed me with his background (broken home, alcoholic abusive father, but saved by his grandfather who guided him through his adolescence) […]
Fishing with Ronnie
I went fishing one night for Asian Carp with Ronnie Hopkins near Kentucky Lake Dam. When I called him to set things up and asked him how he was, he answered “not fit to kill” (meaning not worth the price of the bullet it would take to kill him as he later explained to me). […]
The “new” Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project
Perhaps the best way to describe my thoughts about the “new” Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project is to tell a few stories from my journey so far that illustrate some of the things I’m interested in covering.
