INTERVIEW: “Interview with Shelby Lee Adams” (2010)

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Leddie, Bert and Lonnie, 1988 Shelby Lee Adams was recently interviewed by an entity that decided not to run the complete text. We are bringing it here to ASX. Q: I’ve read that you spent much of your childhood in Kentucky, but that mountain people weren’t held with much regard in your family. Can you tell us about the experience that changed your thinking? Shelby: I’ve never changed my thinking I’ve always loved my grandparents, …

INTERVIEW: “Interview with Shelby Lee Adams” (2010)

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SHELBY LEE ADAMS: “The Napier’s Living Room” (1989)

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The Napier Brothers with Puppies, ’92 The Napier’s Living Room, 1989 By Shelby Lee Adams In the early ’80′s I was taken to visit the Napier family by a local preacher and friend Wayne Riddle from Leatherwood. I was advised not to drive my car, as the roads were rough. We loaded my equipment into the back of my friend’s pickup truck and drove into the head of the holler called Beehive. Leaving the main road weR…

SHELBY LEE ADAMS: “The Napier’s Living Room” (1989)

SHELBY LEE ADAMS: “All of Us”

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The Napier Family, 1989 By Shelby Lee Adams “Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.” Pema Chodron From the onset of my photography in the 1970′s, my experience has been that the larger national population has…

SHELBY LEE ADAMS: “All of Us”