Appalucci is a project about displacement; to go somewhere I'd never been and learn from what I saw there.

This project features the beautiful “Children of the Mountains” in their natural surroundings but wearing one piece of clothing or accessory displaced from its home and transported to a very different place. At the outset the concept was "loose." I knew that the children, whoever they were, wherever I found them, would be the ones to shape the project.

Designer clothing and accessories were donated by friends I know from the Upper East Side in Manhattan. They then were taken to Stinking Creek Hollow, KY — October/November 2009 — and given to various children to wear as they saw fit during a portrait "session," and then keep and do with as they please.*


My goal is to return in the Winter of 2013-2014, the Spring of 2014 and Finish the project that summer.

NOW ACCEPTING CLOTHING DONATIONS  |  Don't need much, just one piece from abt 10 people every visit!*

To be continued...