“Looking at Kentucky Anew…The Kentucky Documentary Photography Project” is on view at Louisville’s Metro Hall (Formerly the Jefferson County Courthouse) through February 29, 2020.

The Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project is the state’s third photographic recording done in 40-year increments. Taking inspiration from the work of the Farm Security Administration (1935–1943) and building on the success of the original Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project (1975–1977), which included Bob Hower & Ted Wathen, The Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project will go into each of the state’s 120 counties making a contemporary visual record of Kentucky. This will be the third time in an eighty year period that photographers have roamed the state recording the landscape and how Kentuckians live, work and play.

The Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project is an ongoing visual history of Kentucky. The project investigates the whole state over a period of 120 years and captures the changes in: How we looked - What we wore - How we worked - What we made - How we used the Land - What we did for fun - How we worshipped - How we lived.