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Exploring the Devastating Effects of Police Killings on Mothers

Photographer Jon Henry photographed mothers and sons using the pietà as a motif to explore the police killings of black men across the United States. Combining the resulting photographs with the words of the mothers who take part in the project, Henry works to show the killings affects the mothers who are often forgotten about in the greater conversation.
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In the early hours of November 25, 2006, in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New York, 23-year-old African American Sean Bell was killed in a hail of fifty bullets fired by police officers at the car he was in. Two of his friends, who were also in...

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Robert E. Gerhardt

Robert Gerhardt is a New York based photographer and freelance writer. His photographs and writings have been published nationally and internationally including in The Hong Kong Free Press, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Diplomat.

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