Bearing witness to defining events of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, echoing the United States' longer historical arch, Accra Shepp's empathetic gelatin silver portraits of fellow citizens standing up for...
Bearing witness to defining events of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, echoing the United States' longer historical arch, Accra Shepp's empathetic gelatin silver portraits of fellow citizens standing up for the Constitution's fair protection provide a prophetic mirror of current events. 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.