Work > The Protest Series

Black Lives Matter
THIS Revolution
Will Not Be Televised #13 Protest Series
A collaboration with Martha Wasik
Quilt
94" x 77"
2015

On 12/3/2014 the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Twitter posted a series of tweets naming 76 individuals killed in police custody since 1999 following the announcement that NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo would not be indicted for killing Eric Garner. Rich Juzwiak and Aleksander Chan compiled the tweets, photos and details on each individual and on 12/8/2014 published the list on www.gawker.com

Photo transfer, custom commercially printed, machine pieced, appliquéd and quilted
photography, Larry Berman