PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Radical Justice: Lifting Every Voice brings together two bodies of socially-engaged photographic portraiture by Accra Shepp, who has documented New York City’s Occupy Wall Street movement starting in 2011 and its racial justice/BLM protests since 2020.

Working in the style of August Sander with a large format camera and black and white film, Shepp pictures fellow New Yorkers on their city’s streets in acts of sit-ins and active protest, both unplanned and highly organized, independent and unified, to address notions of the 99% and 1%, which have become part of the American political vernacular. Bearing witness to defining events of the last decade echoing the United States’ longer historical arch, Shepp’s empathetic depictions of fellow citizens standing up for the Constitution’s fair protection provide a prophetic mirror of current events, which reflects back centuries to where the American experiment began, to suggest where we’ll find ourselves in the years to come.

“One Big Swarm of People” Foreword by Salamishah Tillet, 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Criticism

BOOK INFORMATION

Trim Size: 9 x 11.5

Number of Pages: 248

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CREDIT INFORMATION

Creative Director: Isaac Haas

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Book Designer: Isaac Haas

Jacket/Cover Designer: Isaac Haas

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Photographer: Accra Shepp

Picture Editor: Isaac Haas

Production Director: Isaac Haas

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Other Credits: Accra Shepp, Author & Photographer; Salamishah Tillet, Foreword author; Paula V. Kupfer, Copy editor

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