The Appalachia Project

In February 2012, 10 students from LMU journeyed more than 2,400 miles from L.A.’s southwest urban sprawl, palm trees and freeways to the creeks and hollers of the coal-ridden mountains of West Virginia. Photographer Jon Rou went along on the trip to document the students’ experience in the coal fields of Appalachia.

The story, Mountain Do, captures their time there.