J. Scott Applewhite: A Master Photographer

https://apimagesblog.com/blog/2017/6/13/36-years-and-five-presidents-the-work-of-j-scott-applewhite

Scott was born in Texas and raised in small towns in Kentucky before moving to Louisville in his teens. A friend at Western Kentucky University was a photographer on the college paper, the College Heights Herald, and Scott found himself spending more and more time in the darkroom. Soon, he had a camera of his own and was shooting every day.

“We all skipped classes and worked long hours at the school newspaper,” he says. “I may have been taking college courses, but this is where I got my education.”

A highlight of Scott’s college years came with the devastating 1974 outbreak of tornadoes in Kentucky and a dozen other states. The Louisville Courier-Journal arranged for Scott to travel to a devastated area -- by helicopter. “I thought, ‘People do this for a living?’ I was hooked.”

“ In essence, we are always in a state of transition. The business of news may have suffered, yet today more people get their information visually than ever before — we are a big part of that.”

— - Photographer J. Scott Applewhite