The Faces Of the Illinois

THE FACES OF ILLINOIS

Photographs by Don Manning

Coal miner, Galatia

From the
southern Illinois
region

Tugboatbarge worker, Metropolis

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Bill's BBQ, Metropolis

Child, Old Shawneetown

Grade school, cooperative extension program, Cairo

Coal miners, Galatia

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From the
central Illinois
region

Black ford farm. Champaign County

Archer Daniels Midland employee, Decatur

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Hospital nurse, Urbana

retired farmer, rural Arthur

Laundry, Champaign

Don Manning, an Urbana-based photographer, went the length of Illinois for this portrait of diversity in the Prairie State. His travels for this assignment took him inside a Chicago church, on a tugboat in deep southern Illinois, and to farms and an agribusiness conglomerate in central Illinois. Manning has been a photographer for 25 years and operates his own business, Don Manning Photography, specializing in "low-intrusion" black and white images for business, health care and editorial applications. Winner of an international award for medical advertising photography, Manning is a graduate of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where he studied art and design under Buckminster Fuller.

The project is funded by a grant from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. It is part of a series the magazine is publishing on regionalism in Illinois.

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