Every summer for over forty years, Shelby Lee Adams travelled to the mountains of Eastern Kentucky to take photographs. Now in his seventies, Adams has returned to his archive of unpublished images. His aim was to print those which may have been previously overlooked, concerned that if he did not print them in his lifetime the photographs would never be made. Nearly ninety of these unpublished photographs are included in From the Heads of the Hollers, portraying the culture and people of his native land. Adams' intention when he first began to take pictures had been to 'photograph what I knew'. His annual summer trips allowed him to renew and relive his childhood in these mountains, with much of his work spent in solitude, and a daily ritual of driving the back roads of the hollers (a colloquial term for a small valley between mountains) before sunrise, listening to the radio and looking for what might catch his eye and reignite a memory. A donation of 10% of proceeds from sales of the book purchased directly from the publisher is donated to Team Kentucky Flood Relief Fund.