For a little more than three decades, I have worked on photographic projects that relate, by turns directly and obliquely, to the U.S. intelligence community and attendant issues including surveillance, secrecy, and violence. My current work is as much an ongoing exploration of photographic veracity as it is a critique of escalating authoritarian power in the world, particularly in the U.S.
Job/Security, a book with the writer Edward Schwarzschild, to be published by MIT Press in August of 2024, examines the growth industry of the Homeland Security enterprise in America through scores of interviews with and portraits of security personnel and those impacted by their work. The book also includes photographs of training simulation sites as well as studio photographs of table-top paper models of sites where many of the interviews took place but where photography was not permitted/possible.
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