More Tracks Than Necessary documents Taylor County, Kentucky through the lens of a cellphone. Made after returning home after 15 years lived outside of the state. These images capture rural Kentucky's tension with itself during and after the pandemic. 

Like a lot of projects that have been making their way to the world, it began during the pandemic, though it’s only slightly a document of that period. The book is a long look at the changing shape of rural Kentucky in this time of the internet and broad accessibility—the era of an errant suburbanism that, like the cellphone itself, collapses the distance between large spaces—supplying an illusion that all things are endlessly available and at hand while quietly pushing what is actually local even further to the edges.

But really, it’s a collection of pictures that I love, set against my own growing care for a particular space, during a particular time. And in that care, I find myself drawn toward a kind of sustained looking for things that are beautiful, while still hopefully maintaining a visual honesty and an eye to what is complicated in these spaces.


Published by Sunnyside Projects
Edition of 100
Printed at Conveyor Studio
Jersey City, NJ