Nick Meyer: The Local – LENSCRATCH

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Nick Meyer: The Local – LENSCRATCH

Photographer Nick Meyer has created a remarkable body of work with his powerful project and new book published by MACK, The Local. It’s a collection of unrelenting seeing from a perspective of compassion and familiarity with place, but also a keen sensiti

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Photographer Nick Meyer has created an remarkable body of work with his powerful project and new book published by MACK, The Local. It’s a collection of unrelenting seeing from a perspective of compassion and familiarity with place, but also a keen sensitivity to the challenged humanity of the residents of a small mill town in Western Massachusetts where he grew up and now lives. He understands the wounds of this world, as it collapses into struggle with opioids and a shrinking economy.