This is just beautiful via the New York Times Magazine.
Inside One of America's Last Pencil Factories
Photographs by Christopher Payne
"Photographs like these do something similar. They preserve the secret origins of objects we tend to take for granted. They show us the pride and connection of the humans who make those objects, as well as a mode of manufacturing that is itself disappearing in favor of automation. Like a pencil, these photos trace motions that may someday be gone."
-Sam Anderson, Staff Writer for the New York Times Magazine.
So well said.
