Where Ideas Come From: ‘My America’
Photographer and Barnard Distinguished Artist in Comparative Literature Diana Matar traversed the United States for ten years, documenting locations where citizens were shot or tasered by law enforcement officers. In the resulting book of black and white photographs, writings, and detailed research, My America, she asks: “What does it mean to live in a land where the people responsible for protecting its citizens can so often be involved in their deaths?”
