Making Headlines…
“Here I Am,” A recent film by the Behringer Crawford Museum in Covington, Kentucky about my work as an Appalachian documentary photographer…
”BCM in partnership with FotoFocus proudly brings you "Here I Am: Making Photographs with Malcolm Wilson," a documentary that explores the drive, vision, and passion of one mountaineer photographer who strives to give back to a community.”
FotoFocus Blog, Cincinnati Ohio
Behringer-Crawford Museum Doubles Down on a Planned Artist Feature
The story of Appalachia is about blue mountains and old family homesteads, to be sure, but it’s also indelibly about displacement and separation. For most of the 20th century and before, people emigrated from the Appalachian region to places like Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati in search of work and opportunity. Many never returned. Homesickness for Appalachia is as much a part of its culture as actually living there. Read more…
WSAZ - TV3
Documentary photographer preserves history of coronavirus pandemic.
PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (WSAZ) - Malcolm Wilson captured photo after photo of eastern Kentuckians wearing their favorite face masks as he documented the coronavirus pandemic.
“I could collect anything I want -- cars, jewels, diamonds, I don’t need the money because I can collect it with my camera. I’m collecting history,” said Wilson, a documentary photographer. See story…
WYMT TV Mountain News
‘We’re seeing their soul': Appalachian photographer looks beyond the mask.
PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (WYMT) - The pandemic has impacted everyone a little differently. For Letcher County photographer and documentarian Malcolm Wilson, it really hit home.
“My wife is a principal medical provider for a longterm care facility. So, because of that, we have to live in two separate parts of the house,” Wilson said.
He used his daily life as inspiration to start a documentary photo project, chronicling the ways everything has changed. That became a larger project when he considered the people outside of his walls. Read more…
The State of Coal Country Inside Appalachia from West Virginia Public Broadcasting's "Inside Appalachia" Radio Show
Our roots with coal run deep here in central Appalachia. But the future for the people in the Appalachian coalfields is unclear. Although coal will likely still continue to be mined, it doesn’t seem like jobs in this industry will ever come back, not like they once were. People in the coalfields are worried. Jobs are disappearing -- and there isn’t a lot of hope right now. Click here to listen to the podcast…
WKRC - TV12 Cincinnati, Ohio: NKU symposium at Cincinnati Museum Center will focus on Appalachia
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Cincinnati Art Museum will host NKU's annual symposium on April 28. Every year, it showcases research or creative work by NKU faculty on different topics. This year, the topic is "Appalachia: An American Story". NKU's executive director for civic engagement, Mark Neikirk, and Malcolm J. Wilson, photographer for "Humans of Central Appalachia" share details of the symposium. Watch story…
Greater Cincinnati Urban Appalachian Community Coalition Blog:
Malcolm Wilson: Making Photographs and Telling the Stories of Appalachia
by Mike Templeton
Malcolm Wilson is a photographer, web designer, journalist, artist and all-around Renaissance man who makes it his business to put the humanity of Appalachia at the center of his work. He now lives in the mountains of Blackey, Kentucky but is originally from Cumberland, Kentucky in Harlan County, Kentucky. Read more…
WEKU Public Radio Humans of Central Appalachia Podcasts…
Humans of Central Appalachia is an ongoing serial feature of Eastern Standard. The series is based on hundreds of interviews conducted by Malcolm Wilson among the people of the Central Appalachian region, telling their family stories, sharing their Appalachian memories and experiences, and offering their views and ideas about the shape and form of Appalachian rebirth. Click here to listen to the podcasts…
WMMT Podcast…
Doug Naselroad, Hindman, Kentucky
WMMT proudly features the first of what will be an ongoing collaboration with the Humans of Central Appalachia project – an interview with Master Luthier in Residence at the Bolen Woodworking Studio of the Appalachian Artisan Center, Doug Naselroad. Humans of Central Appalachia (HOCA) was founded on Facebook in 2015 in an effort to dispell the stereotypes perpetuated by mainstream media sources and shock photographers. Listen to the Podcast…
WMMT Radio: History Alive! – Malcolm J. Wilson (Humans of Central Appalachia)
June 24, 2016
For a special treat to all of you, WMMT is making the latest episode of History Alive! available to stream at your convenience! In this episode of the program, hosts Theresa Osborne and Phyllis Sizemore of Harlan County speak with Harlan Co. native and Letcher Co. resident – Malcolm J. Wilson. Listen to the podcast…
WYMT TV Mountain News Story…
In a world seemingly driven by social media, one man has taken his love for Appalachia to Facebook. Humans of Central Appalachia has been in existence for more than a year, telling the stories of people in the region. Malcolm Wilson, the man behind the page, says sharing these stories is his passion. Read more…
Video Story By Jack Dunham, BVU, Bristol, Virginia…
What Happens When Strangers With Cameras Travel Inside Appalachia?
(West Virginia Public Radio's "Inside Appalachia" Podcast & Syndicated Radio Show)
What happens when strangers with cameras go to Appalachia? It’s a complicated topic that many Appalachians have strong feelings about. Hearing about recent clashes between outsider photographers and local people, it almost seems as if we’ve been through this before. This show looks at why a recent photo essay that was published in Vice magazine, called “Two Days in Appalachia”, is causing a lot of debate throughout Appalachia. We’ll also hear from artists and photographers who are hoping to cultivate more diversity and civilian artists. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST…
Malcolm Wilson has made it his mission to profile the people of Appalachia…
(WCYB TV 5 News Story, Bristol, TN/VA)
A Bristol, Tennessee photographer started a Facebook page a few weeks ago and in a short time thousands of fans have begun to follow him and his work. Malcolm Wilson has made it his mission to profile the people of Appalachia.
BRISTOL, Tenn. - A Bristol, Tennessee photographer started a Facebook page a few weeks ago and in a short time thousands of fans have begun to follow him and his work. Malcolm Wilson has made it his mission to profile the people of Appalachia. Wilson spends his free time traveling around Central Appalachia, talking to as many people as he can. He's the creator behind the Facebook page, HUMANS OF CENTRAL APPALACHIA, a space to share everyone's experience. WATCH THE VIDEO…
Show It Like You Know It
Malcolm J. Wilson’s unfiltered look at the real Humans of Central Appalachia by Coleman Larkin
(Kentucky for Kentucky Internet Blog; Lexington, KY)
Something about the way photographer Malcolm J. Wilson freezes the light on his subjects, or the way the dark rivulets of, say, the wrinkles in their skin, seem to carry on in fluid motion like shadowy creeks, makes them look as if they’ve been carved from marble a millennium ago. You might not know who they are. You probably don’t. But you get the sense that they’re important. That they matter. And that’s the point. Inspired by the wildly popular Humans of New York, Wilson started a Facebook page of his own, one that tells the unfiltered stories of the real people who live in the often misunderstood area he calls home: Humans of Central Appalachia. In less than a month he’s garnered around 8,000 followers and spends much of his time crisscrossing the region in search of subjects to keep up with the demand for his mix of honest, objective storytelling and documentary photography. CONTINUE READING…
Designer to Sell Artist's Proofs of the Inaugural Bristol Rhythm & Roots Poster to Benefit 606 State Street Gallery…
Malcolm J. Wilson, the Bristol, Tennessee digital artist, designer and photographer responsible for the creation of the very first Bristol Rhythm and Roots poster, will be selling from his personal collection of original artist’s proofs, 27 original posters from the festival’s first year on Sunday, September 16 at 1:00pm in the 606 State Street Gallery in historic downtown Bristol. The proceeds will benefit the State Street Artists’ Cooperative, the group of artists who display at the gallery. Read more…