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Michael Ireland – Springfield, MO
“A cookie-cut subdivision, a mall parking lot, a rural country road. Linking these unremarkable pockets of America, and hundreds of places just as ordinary, is the fact that they’ve all been sites where people were killed by U.S. police officers.”
In my first piece for TIME, I write about Josh Begley‘s project Officer Involved.
Like many of Begley’s previous works, he makes use of third party (activist/research/journalism) data to image a geographically-disparate but nationally-important issue. For Officer Involved he used The Guardian’s data from The Counted.
In 2016, there were 1,138 deaths in which a U.S. law enforcement officers was involved.
Read: Visualizing ‘Officer-Involved’ Deaths Across America
Talbot Schroeder – Old Bridge Township, NJ
Donald Matkins – Lucedale, MS
Alice Brown – San Francisco, CA
Anthony Purvis – Douglas, GA
Omarr Jackson – New Orleans, LA
Ricky Hall – Fort Meade, MD
Brian Fritze – Glenwood Springs, CO
Aaron Rutledge – Pineville, LA
Charly ‘Africa’ Keunang – Los Angeles, CA
Lionel Young – Landover, MD
If you’re in NYC, get yourself to lower Manhattan tomorrow evening.
Josh Begley is a data artist and web developer, well known for creating an iPhone app to track every reported U.S. drone strike.
In his artist talk ‘Visualizing Carceral Space’, Begley will discuss his projects Prison Map and Dronestream (a.k.a MetaData).
Begley will speak from 6:00 to 7:30 pm, on Thursday March 12th, at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 2 W13th Street in the ground-floor Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery.
The talk is offered as part of the programming for Prison Obscura showing at Parsons which features an expanded, custom-made version of Prison Map.
Josh Begley‘s work has appeared in Wired, The New York Times, NPR, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, and at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. He currently works at The Intercept doing incredible things like this.
Follow Josh on Twitter at @joshbegley and on @dronestream.
Prison Photography 