On this beautiful fall day, I’m taking a momentary break from fashion to share a really cool project with you all (and to showcase the awesomeness that is Twitter). A couple weeks ago, I got an email on my personal twitter that @THISisLouisville began following me. Since these types of accounts usually get my attention (as opposed to the ones that as obviously porn, spam or weirdos), I checked them out.

Turns out “This… is Louisville” is the brainchild of Maggie Huber and has all the potential to be a REALLY cool fixture in Louisville. So I gave her a shout and after a couple emails, I knew I had to write a post and support her new project.

A little background on Maggie….

Maggie is a Louisville native (she went to Presentation, in case you all needed to know – I know how important that is to natives) and graduated from Western Kentucky University’s famed photojournalism program. Since graduation she’s interned with John Nation at Louisville magazine, shot for Underwired magazine and has freelanced with the Lexington Herald-Leader and the Courier-Journal.

How “THIS… Is Louisville” came about…

As a freelancer in today’s economy, there is no guarantee on the next assignment so like any great entrepreneur, Maggie decided to make her own opportunity.

“I started thinking about what was missing from our local media outlets and combined with my love for visual storytelling decided it was the ‘face’ of the story.  We can talk all day about Louisville’s refugee community or joblessness or what have you, but if I put a name and a face on it and show you what their day to day life is it makes things totally different.”

Maggie emailed some of her buddies from WKU and shared her idea about starting a publication that focused on the faces in the news. It didn’t take much to get the group excited about sharing images and stories that are close to their hearts that could make a difference and would have gone untold otherwise.