29/07/2026
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In continuing my active trilogy of documentation on the contemporary United States (Of Thee I Sing), I decided to take on murder as a subject, and what I feel is a growing lack of empathy, in order to attain a macro-view on the societal effects of homicide on people, both individually and as a group.
American Homicide is being built in three parts: Families of Victims, Families of Perpetrators (including the Murderers themselves), and the Investigative Ecosystem surrounding Homicide. This includes Medical Examiners, Crime Scene technicians, Prosecution and Defense Attorneys, Forensic Anthropologists and the lives of Homicide Detectives, who are caught in the middle trying to both apply justice and to also remain human, for themselves and their families.
The goal is to look at how one act affects all parties involved. Traditionally, when looking at murder, most attention is paid to the victim and their immediate family. Although this is justified to a certain degree, I am more interested in the larger picture, and how cumulatively, these homicides affect us as a society.
After my time with detectives, I was granted permission to visit and photograph convicted murderers in two states, encompassing eight prisons.
In the final production of the book, I plan on including full spreads of school-age photos, of both victims, and murderers, when they were all still children. Why, you may ask? To infer the obvious: that these children, before they were killed, or felt they had to kill others, still had a chance to be saved, on both sides. To advocate for the pre-emptive action between individuals that is still needed to save us all.
A three year documentation of homicide - how it affects not only victims, but also perpetrators and the investigators caught in between
