Little Cities

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Little Cities is a visual meditation on the ways cultural forces shape our relationship to the landscape. It examines how both Indigenous peoples and descendants of settler colonialists inhabited and utilized the land around them.

The images depict the man-altered landscape within the rural Appalachian communities of Southeast Ohio, a microcosm of unsettled issues that transcend the region and permeate the nation's psyche. This study observes the correlation between the physical landscape and collective memory.

Centuries have elapsed since the last Indigenous tribe was relocated from this region, and decades have passed since the valuable resources deep in the earth were extracted. Today we reflect, reconcile, and strive to repair wounds to both the land and its people. These observations are born from the desire to understand who we were, who we are, and who we may become.

Little Cities is a visual meditation on the ways cultural forces shape our relationship to the landscape. It examines how both Indigenous peoples and descendants of settler colonialists inhabited and utilized the land around them.

The images depict the man-altered landscape within the rural Appalachian communities of Southeast Ohio, a microcosm of unsettled issues that transcend the region and permeate the nation's psyche. This study observes the correlation between the physical landscape and collective memory.

Centuries have elapsed since the last Indigenous tribe was relocated from this region, and decades have passed since the valuable resources deep in the earth were extracted. Today we reflect, reconcile, and strive to repair wounds to both the land and its people. These observations are born from the desire to understand who we were, who we are, and who we may become.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Rich-Joseph Facun is an Otomí and Pinoy storyteller, photographer, and bookmaker presently based in the Appalachian Foothills of southeast Ohio. His work aims to offer an authentic look into ways in which individual identity is influenced by the economic, geographic, and community norms of a given landscape. The exploration of place and cultural identity present themselves as a common denominator in both his life and his photographic endeavors.

DETAILS

7.75 x 9.75 in | 19.685 x 24.765 cm, Hardcover

Blind Deboss, Smyth Sewn, Cloth Square Spine

128 pages with 58 color plates, 1 vintage plate

Essay by Rich-Joseph Facun

Design Direction: Juan Aranda

ISBN 978-1-7358143-5-3

First Edition of 500

Published August 2022

by Little Oak Press

PRESS

The Washington Post

“Facun’s photographs grapple with the complexity of how things form and become what they are — one of life’s biggest mysteries. So while the location is Appalachia, the questions are somewhat universal — who are we? How did we become who we are? And why?”

Kenneth Dickerman,The Washington Post