By editor
Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 8:08 am
"A lot of my work is visiting," says photographer Shelby Lee Adams. "A quarter is actually photographing."
In fact, Adams has spent some 30 years visiting and building relationships with the people in and around Hazard, a small city in eastern Kentucky where he was born.
The visits started well before he was a photographer. As a young boy, Adams would tag along with his uncle, a country doctor, tending to families tucked up in mountain hollows, or "hollers."
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