Untitled [Family and Dog]

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This series portrays miners in ten nations. In 1962, Milton and Anne Rogovin traveled to Appalachia for the first of nine visits. Photographs were taken of mountains devastated by mining operations as well as of miners at their work places and in the neighborhoods where they worked. Miners in this series are African, African-American, Hispanic, Asian and white, and men and women. After Milton received the W. Eugene Smith Award for Documentary Photography (1983) from the International Center of Photography, he was able to expand his Family of Miners series to include ten nations. Mines were photographed in Zimbabwe (1989), Mexico (1988), Cuba (1984-89), Appalachia (1962-87), Czechoslovakia (1990), Germany (1984), France (1981), Spain (1983), Scotland (1982), and China (1986). About the Working People Series: "In 1975 I closed my optometric office in order to do a photo series in the steel mills of the Buffalo area (plus one series in Philadelphia). In this series, I tried, if possible, to film the workers both at work and at home with their families." –Milton Rogovin