Across Appalachia, photographer Stacy Kranitz is embedding herself into the frame, turning strangers into lovers, subjects into friends, and exploding the myth that photography is objective.
Appalachia is synonymous with poverty in the United States, a wasteland of dirty kids in barren shacks if you believe the news. But one photographer is exposing the bigger picture, one crowd-sourced image at a time.
Photographer Roger May's crowdsourced Looking at Appalachia project reveals another perspective on a misunderstood region of the US. Here he selects his five favourite Instagrammers.