These images were created in response to the Black Lives Matter Movement. The faceless men represent individuals affected by this systemic issue. Incarceration rates, racial profiling and fatalities from law enforcement disproportionately affect individuals of color. Police officers have the difficult task of protecting and serving our communities. They are people we depend on in common and extreme situations but every black family still has to have “the talk” with their children; especially their sons. Every few months a high profile story emerges about another individual who is a victim of the criminal justice system. These situations have become all too common.
Social media and the digital age have given us access to see how excessive force has been used in several situations with individual’s of color. These issues went from overt to covert and have yet to be properly addressed and fixed.