Those living in Chester, PA, USA, grow up in an environment where forces everywhere are against them. It is a place where pollution alters cognitive development, violence and crime are commonplace, poverty is oppressive, jobs are virtually non-existent, and people with nothing take from others who have little. I was besieged while witnessing the issues weighing heavily on the lives of the people in this community. In experimenting with multiple exposures, I'm attempting to speak to the complexities I felt were so tightly woven into their lives.
I’ve heard people say that since America has it’s first Black President in office, we have transitioned into a post-racial society. If he can succeed, then all people of color can do the same. This supposed land of the free is at liberty to those that have the wealth to buy it.
Those living in Chester, PA, USA, grow up in an environment where forces everywhere are against them. It is a place where pollution alters cognitive development, violence and crime are commonplace, poverty is oppressive, jobs are virtually non-existent, and people with nothing take from others who have little
If you walk these streets, you pass people in a trance, who speak without being heard. You see children with shallow eyes, with scars deep. Ghosts are everywhere, fading from neglect. People are forced into carrying this burden and thus are required to be strong to withstand it.
I was besieged while witnessing the issues weighing heavily on the lives of the people in this community. In experimenting with multiple exposures, I'm attempting to speak to the complexities I felt were so tightly woven into their lives. With out this approach, my work would not begin to unfold the many causes and consequences that come from their collective struggle.
This project is an attempt to bring awareness to the issues that plague many inner city Black communities, like Chester, through out America. Mostly importantly though, it’s an attempt to show the resilience and strength that is present in these communities.