The “Industrial Revolution” could not have happened without the contribution of coal to create the energy needed to fuel the change. But in any revolution, there are winners and losers, and in my opinion, the men that risked their lives everyday by going deep into the earth to dig for the “black gold” as it was referred, are the ones that sacrificed for this revolution. Men worked long hours in unsafe environments, and were never allowed to organize. Mines had their own police force and controlled the housing and groceries. Miners were fired and sometimes killed in order for the world to ben­efit from the “Industrial Revolution.” Portrait of a Coal Miner honors those whose hard work has brought us to this point. – Fernando Lozano