Taryn Simon
From Provisions
About the Artist
What’s most strongly conveyed, perhaps, by a close study of [Simon's] photographs, is how intricate and often systematic this off-limits land of ours is — how conscientious we can be about what we don’t want to be conscious of.
--New Work by the artist in New York Times Magazine
Simon leaves us with an ambiguous message: without the truth-telling of DNA, these men and women would probably not be free. But saving receipts and documenting genetic sequences, she implies, may not really be the answer to our problems.
More on Innocence and Exoneration
The Innocents at Provisions Library
This compelling exhibition presents photographic portraits of 45 wrongfully convicted individuals who were exonerated through DNA evidence.
The Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, founded by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld in 1992, is a non-profit legal clinic and criminal justice resource center. We work to exonerate the wrongfully convicted through postconviction DNA testing; and develop and implement reforms to prevent wrongful convictions. This Project only handles cases where postconviction DNA testing can yield conclusive proof of innocence.
360 Degrees: Perspectives on the US Justice System
Truth in Justice: Educating the public on wrongful conviction
Truth in Justice is an educational non-profit organized to educate the public regarding the vulnerabilities in the U. S. criminal justice system that make the criminal conviction of wholly innocent persons possible.
Behind Closed Doors - New York Magazine
Taryn Simon is of a younger generation (she is 31), and what she is after, in a remarkable new body of work she calls “An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar,” is something altogether different: a sense of what we won’t allow one another to see.
