Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN
Challenging binaries and stereotypes, Swing is a pop-up series that paints a nuanced portrait of America through photography of the day-to-day lives of overlooked people and communities.
In the coal-mining towns of southeastern Ohio, nestled in the Appalachian mountains, photographer Rich-Joseph Facun has worked on a visual study of a region that has been stereotyped for decades. Appalachia has often been viewed one-dimensionally, saddled in associations related to poverty and opioid use, and deemed Trump Country during the 2016 election.
Yet Facun s series on the Little Cities of Black Diamonds, named for their once-booming coal industry, shows a more nuanced and alluring take on rural Ohio, which became his home