The Hoosier hills of southern Indiana, branded as the Indiana Uplands in more recent years, occupy a cultural seam between the Midwest and the South that most Americans can't place. This long-form film photography series is made in the hill counties, river towns, man-made lakes, limestone hollows, and back-road communities of southern Indiana, where Appalachian roots run quietly beneath the surface of everyday Hoosier life.

 

This work documents the people, places, and regional traditions that persist alongside, and sometimes in contrast to, more mainstream connected culture. As a handpicked record of real people, real places, and real moments, I've chosen to focus on intention — ways of life deliberately continued, traditions actively tended, and uncelebrated moments of cultural significance connected to this place I call home.