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In these cell phone photographs, taken from the daily newspaper, I am exploring the energy created by colliding vantage points: victims and perpetrators, innocents and traitors, onlookers and actors. Jammed together is the range of happenings in the news: political rallies, car crashes, domestic disputes and military insurgencies. A common thread of pathos emerges.

I want the cellphone's patchy, rough quality to add to the immediacy, making it harder to look away—even though we might want to.

We feel somehow we shouldn’t gawk
but how could we not

So we do

At what’s tangled, amiss
At what stares back at us
as if through the lens of a camera