![]() And rather than photographing trees which were supposedly known to be used for lynchings (in most cases these trees no longer exist, as well as almost untenable to try to identify “lynching trees” with any certainty), I photographed old Southern trees as “stand-ins”. Through long exposure and movement of the camera, the trees and the branches I captured were rendered abstract, almost ghostlike. Virginia, only ended the prohibition on interracial marriage in 1967. I was motivated to create this series as a white German woman married to an African American man living in the American South, but from the perspective that if we had been born a generation earlier our relationship would have been illegal, if not cause to be lynched. At the Hands of Persons Unknown explores how trees have been silent witnesses to the lynchings of women in the United States. ![]()
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