The JKC Gallery is excited to announce a new Artist Talk Series: Photo Show Live
This first summer show will be on zoom only.
The show will have three components, the interview, the artist showing work, and Q&A from all of you. The interview and work will be published as part of the Real Photo Show podcasts and on the Real Photo Show and YouTube.
My first guest is Rich-Joseph Facun and we will talk about two of his books, Black Diamonds and Little Cities. Here is the description of those books:
In 2021 his first monograph Black Diamonds was released by Fall Line Press. The work is a visual exploration of the former coal mining boom towns of SE Ohio, Appalachia. Subsequently, it was highlighted by Charcoal Book Club as their “Book-Of-The-Month.” Black Diamonds is also part of the permanent collection at the Frederick and Kazuko Harris Fine Arts Library and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art’s Research Library.
Presently, Facun is in the process of producing his next monograph Little Cities, slated to be released in Autumn 2022 by Little Oak Press. The work examines how both Indigenous peoples and descendants of settler colonialists inhabited and utilized the land around them.
About Rich-Joseph:
Rich-Joseph Facun is a photographer of Indigenous Mexican and Filipino descent. His work aims to offer an authentic look into endangered, bygone, and fringe cultures—those transitions in time where places fade but people persist.
The exploration of place, community and cultural identity present themselves as a common denominator in both his life and photographic endeavors.
Before finding “home” in the Appalachian Foothills of southeast Ohio, Facun roamed the globe for 15 years working as a photojournalist. During that time, he was sent on assignment to over a dozen countries, and for three of those years he was based in the United Arab Emirates.
Thank you and I hope to see you this summer.
-Michael Chovan-Dalton, JKC Gallery Director