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Rob Amberg Award-winning photographer, writer Marshall, NC W: (828) 649-2142
About Rob Amberg: Rob Amberg’s photographs and writing have been exhibited and published internationally. He lectures frequently and does assignment work for philanthropic foundations, non-profit organizations and editorial publications. His first book, Sodom Laurel Album, won the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award from the Western North Carolina Historical Association. His next book, The New Road: I-26 & the Footprints of Progress, will be published in spring 2009. Amberg has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. He lives with his wife, children and an assortment of animals on a farm in Madison County.
The New Road & Today’s Mountaineers Rob Amberg has been documenting change in rural Madison County since the early 1970s. His earliest work documented the lifestyle of Dellie Norton, a seventy-six year old tobacco farmer, ballad singer and community elder, her adopted son Junior, and their mountain community of Sodom Laurel. In this lecture/discussion, Amberg uses photographs and oral histories to look at the construction of a nine-mile section of highway I-26 through the mountains of Madison County and some of the demographic and environmental changes that have come since the road’s completion.
Requirements: LCD projection system preferred, screen
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