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“Aftermath” by Photographer Olga Sokal

Based between New York and London, Polish photographer Olga Sokal photographs post-coal rural Appalachia in her series, ‘Aftermath’.

Lynch, Kentucky once boasted a population of 10,000 during the peak of the coal industry, but by 2018 that number had dwindled to 600. In the absence of a booming coal industry, jobs dried up and schools closed, leaving behind a city struggling in its wake. As Sokal explains, “The rapid economic and ecological expansion left not only a changed and polluted landscape, but a changed generation. Coal, in many respects, became Appalachia.”

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