Shelby Lee Adams: Salt & TruthShelby Lee Adams first encountered the communities of the Appalachian mountains as a child, while accompanying his doctor uncle on his rounds. In the mid 1970s he started to photograph in the region, using a 4 x 5 camera, gaining and building a special trust among its often impoverished people, who have tended to not always welcome would be documentarians. Adams not only records their lives and hardships with great empathy, but also depicts the grace