Southeast Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Roger May

Saturday, November 07, 2015 @ 2:00pm, Clemson One Building

Looking at Appalachia

Roger May (b. 1975) is an Appalachian American photographer based in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was born in the Tug River Valley, on the West Virginia and Kentucky state line, in the heart of what is commonly known as Hatfield and McCoy country. His photographs, essays, and interviews have been published by The New York Times, National Geographic, The Oxford American, The Guardian, Le Monde diplomatique, Vantage, THE WEEK, The Bitter Southerner, fototazo, BagNewsNotes, Appalachian Heritage, and others. In February 2014, he started the crowdsourced Looking at Appalachia project. May speaks and writes about issues surrounding the visual representation of Appalachia and photographs on commission. He blogs at Walk your camera.