The photos in Hannah Modigh’s book are taken in 2006 in and around the small town of St. Charles in Virginia, a community marked by generations of coal-mining in subterranean mines. Today, unemployment there is vast. Hillbilly heroin is a slang term for the prescription painkiller Oxycontin, often used by miners, which in high dosage has a heroin-like effect.
Hillbilly Heroin, Honey is Hannah Modigh's first book.
99 color and b/w images • Foreword by Billy Edd Wheeler • Editing: Gösta Flemming, Hannah Modigh • Layout: Hannah Modigh, Johan Lindberg • Design: Johan Lindberg • Hard cover • 240 x 230 mm • 176 pages • English • 2010
Winner of the Swedish Photobook Award 2010.
Selected for Hasselblad Center’s exhibition Published – Photo Books in Sweden, Gothenburg Museum of Art 2018.
