My America Dead by Police Bullets

Deputy Head of the Culture Department

Published on 03/10/2020 11:52 AM
Reading time: 7 min

These are mostly black and white images. Not a single human presence. Nothing but deserted places: roadside, lawn, parking lot, banal street… A hundred places photographed by Diana Matar for one and the same reason: in each of these places, someone was killed by the American police. The United States indeed possesses the sad privilege of the world’s highest rate of police homicides.

“The biggest job was to find the information to find the places where these people had been shot, explains the photographer in the room that hosts her work at the Museum of Photography in Charleroi. After a first step of research, I made a plan and I selected the four states with the highest rate of people killed by the police: Texas, California, New Mexico and Oklahoma. “

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