Ingvar Kenne A year after Rodney King’s death by police and the riots that followed Dana was sent by the Dutch magazine Vrij Nederland, to cover the aftermath and reconstruction of the area.

She decided to photograph on a 4x5 inch camera using a tripod to slow things down and gifting the test polaroid’s to her subjects. Slowly trust was built. The work was exhibited later that year in Amsterdam, but Dana decided to keep going back to the housing estate of Imperial Courts and documenting. It ended up being 22 years of photographing (and later adding video and sound recordings) before the book Imperial Courts was published. Many of the subjects appear multiple times, images of them decade apart. You see one as a child, later with a child of her own. It becomes anything but sensational, yet death and fragility of life is tapping at the edge of frame. In Dana’s words:

“I want each image to be its own self-contained story, and then together, as a body, they present the community in a certain way. It’s not the wild west with people shooting each other, but people do live with a lot of loss and death.” – Dana Lixenberg

ELIZABETH ROBERTS This project is a refreshingly inspiring design for infrastructure in NYC. A much-deserved subject for great design and historically not enough attention has been given to the infrastructure dedicated to serving the nearly 9 million inhabitants of NYC