Submission

My most recent body of work titled “The Aesthetics of Protest” investigates protest, the role of images, and the politics of representation through the photographs taken by photojournalists. In my translation of these events through my photographic and sculptural works, I create a new symbolic landscape of space and power. The work in The Aesthetic of Protest simultaneously addresses the power relationships between protesters, government agencies, the public, as well as the role of the photojournalist in representing these negotiations of power. As protest and counter-protests were played out, and continue to play out, in cities around the United States the documentation of these events by photojournalists served to communicate information about these power relationships through photographs. Far from being neutral observations, these images served as yet another influential agent of power inserting themselves between the event and the public.