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 Composite Portrait of the Expanding American Security Industry, a book with the writer Edward Schwarzschild (MIT Press, 2024) and the accompanying exhibition at the University Art Museum on the campus of the University at Albany, SUNY, Job Security: Voices and Views from the American Security Industry, both examine 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 and exhibition also include 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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