Aaron Blum: The Prevailing Winds of Hills and Heritage | LENSCRATCH

Aaron Blum continues to show a deep love for Appalachia with The Prevailing Winds of Hills and Heritage, a theological and mystical translation of his relationship with the region. Shrouded in the warmth of a golden hour, with the taste of saccharine and the grit of the open outdoors, Blum’s photographs speak in terms of unprecedented beauty and awe.  They reveal a sense of quiet solitude, as if one had stumbled onto a new world, the likes of which they have never known. By navigating Blum’s work through this specific series, but also within the compendium of other work he has made, it is clear that this place is apart of who he is, and these were the stories that he was always meant to tell.