My concept found its genesis in the notion of the “absence” of the Harlem streets. I was interested in the absent bodies within a landscape, the uncanny presence in the memory of the streets. My project focused on documenting sites where people have laid down and died as a result of accident, injury, or petty crime by combing through homicide police reports both recent and historical. My photo documentation sought to explore the questions of space absorbing violence, as well as the dying, of how the act might resonate within the environment or not, of memory and knowledge inflecting our ways of seeing space. It also explores my own interest in the representation of the body and how to codify it simply without it, via the invisible man.
“Then Girl Ran One Block to Her Apt. Building, 1590 Madison Avenue,” represents the death of a young girl who was caught in the crossfire of a shooting between two men.