Culture
Crowdfunding Helps Photographer Share Southeast Ohio’s “Black Diamonds”
By: Chris Day | WOUB Visuals, Evann Figueroa | WOUB Visuals
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — The WOUB Visuals team talked with photographer and Ohio University alumni Rich-Joseph Facun about his new photobook, “Black Diamonds.” The book is a visual exploration of place, community and cultural identity in former coal mining boom towns of Southeast Ohio and Appalachia.
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Facun shared insight on his career in photography, how he first thought of the idea for the book and photographed the project, and the hurdles of crowdfunding and publishing a book in the middle of a pandemic.
Interviewer: Evann Figueroa, WOUB Visuals photo editor
Camera: Chris Day, WOUB Visuals assistant photo editor