[Leica] My portraits of oil workers homes in Slate

[al crouch]

Very familiar scenes (except for the snow).  Our local newspaper has run several photo essays of the plight of oil country workers in the Eagle Ford shale fields in South Texas.  The downturn in oil  prices have driven many merchants and entrepreneurs in that area out of business.  Quite a change from a couple of years ago when  there  was a scramble to find housing and support in the small towns there.  I suspect the same decline will be experienced in North Dakota 
and hope you can stay with the project and document the downside of that boom.  






-----Original Message-----
>From: kyle cassidy <leicaslacker at gmail.com>
>Sent: Mar 14, 2016 12:05 PM
>To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>Subject: [Leica] My portraits of oil workers homes in Slate
>
>I've been going to North Dakota for three years now with two professors
>from the University of North Dakota who ares studying living conditions of
>oil workers. Some of my portraits are in Slate magazine today -- I'd love
>it if you'd check them out:
>
>http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2016/03/14/kyle_cassidy_photographs_the_homes_of_oil_workers_in_north_dakota_in_the.html
>
>Thanks!
>
>Kyle
>
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