Shot annually in New England since 2004, “Independence Day” is a documentary project regarding the imposition of violence with liberation on the adolescent imagination. Within the visceral dramas of the fire ritual, a meditation occurs between the various properties of light: as destruction, as a cloak, as illumination.



all images are C-prints,
20” x 24”
2004- 2007
 

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Independence Day #1
Independence Day