nils klinger

nils klinger's 'facts' project. see more here.

[all nils klinger. facts. top to bottom: december 06, 1913 alexander bihl, alias el bill suspected of lifting a diamond ring from naylorn jewelry store. march 07, 1911 c.l. bates, alias claud country suspected of vagrancy. 1944 archie arthur arnold suspected of abortion. december 16, 1910 jospeh burke, alias joseph o´brien plead guilty to having nitro glycerin unlawfully in posession.]

archive • inmate population information list

this is a site run by the florida department of corrections that "....contains public record information on felony offenders sentenced to the department of corrections." the database has their names as well as photographs, release date, tattoos, offenses, etc. see more here.

[all from inmate population information list.]

archive is a weekly column by asha schechter that appears each wednesday on i heart photograph

clare strand

clare strand's project 'signs of a struggle' "looks at the phenomena of the new town and the garden city movement. taking from ionesco and les tuers sans gages the work reveals a fatal flaw in utopia in the presence of a serial killer whose sequence of crimes are documented in a series of forensic imagery fresh from the file." see more here.

[all clare strand. from the series signs of a struggle. 2003.]

rossella biscotti

an interesting project by rossella biscotti. "‘the undercover man’ is a short film about the FBI agent joseph pistone also known as donnie brasco. the story of his undercover operations in the new york mafia was already legendary through the movie donnie brasco, with johnny depp and al pacino. rossella biscotti tracked-down pistone and made a shivering yet strikingly beautiful portrait of a man, who presents a character built on fictitious identities and cinematographic representations, in the film-noir genre." see more here.

[all rossella biscotti. from the series the undercover man. top to bottom: recent reproduction of archival FBI-photograph with notations by pistone. filmstill. recent reproduction of archival FBI-photograph with notations by pistone.]

tehnica schweiz

tehnica schweiz is the hungarian duo gergely lászló + péter rákosi. they have been collaborating since 2004, and for this project they collected drawings of suspects from a hungarian police magazine and then found people to photograph who fit the descriptions. as they explain: "the drawings are done by trained experts (police artists) by hand or with the help of a specialized software. these pictures are usually based on testimonies of several eye-witnesses. they don't intend to depict the split-image of the offender, but to emphasize special characteristics on the delinquent's body or/and face. ...for each drawing we were looking for a model who would carry characteristics similar to the drawn person. these people we took portraits of with a large format camera." take a look at more of tehnica schweiz's stuff right here.

[all tehnica schweiz. from the series identikit photographs. 2006.]

steven hirsch

yet another interesting project by steven hirsch. here he's photographed all the evidence in the trail of peter braunstein, a nyc-based fashion writer convicted of sexual assult in a high profile trail in 2007. you can see a previous post about steven's project love thy neighbor here and view the full evidence project right here.

[all steven hirsch. from the series evidence. top to bottom: ski mask worn during assault. unused smoke bomb found in backpack in memphis.]

steven hirsch

steven hirsch's project love thy neighbor portrays the homes of new york state registered sex offenders. the captions (below) describe each offender's crime and punishment. as ina becker has written about this work: "steven hirsch documents the surface. the image becomes a catalyst to the at times uncomfortable emotional experience the viewer brings to seeing. our projections become superimposed on the visual image." see the full series here.

[all steven hirsch. from the series love thy neighbor. top: male • d.o.b. october 15, 1966 • immediately and physically overpowered and sexually abused in the 1st degree a 69 year old female • convicted september 29, 1988 • sentenced to 42 months to 7 years in state prison. middle: male • d.o.b. june 16, 1957 • engaged in oral and anal sexual conduct without consent with a 13 year old male • convicted november 8 2004 • sentenced to 210 days in jail. bottom: male • d.o.b. march 3, 1947 • youth group leader • sodomized in the 2nd degree an 11 year old male • convicted june 30, 2002 • sentenced to 16 months to 4 years in state prison.]

liyu + liubo

such a great project by chinese photographers liyu + liubo: photographic reenactments of stories found in local newspapers. there's a really interesting way in which the factual, banal and deadpan language of the newspaper writing gets translated into visual form here. the photographers also note being very influenced by film, television, and news photos and these elements all come across in the aesthetic of their restagings. the photos also reminds me a lot of a certain quality in jeff wall's work. see more from this project here. and huge thanks to paul schiek of these birds walk for sending me the link.

an anonymous female body found on yangtze river bank, hankou –experts drew portraits for collecting more clues (chutian metropolis daily 2006-05-30)

may 2nd, an anonymous female body was found in hankou binjiangyuan ferry. since the face of the body has been seriously distorted and unidentifiable, one detective expert from shanghai railway police station and one professor from hubei institute of fine arts were invited respectively by wuhan water guard to draw portraits for reappearance. yesterday the portraits were publicized and related clues would be offered a reward.

failing in stealing, a thirteen-year-old girl set fire to classmate's flat (chutian golden paper 2006-04-05)

xiao qian (an anonym), a thirteen-year-old girl, copied the house key of her classmate, linyu (an anonym) and stole in the flat many times. on april first, xiao qian entered into lin's flat again and stole nothing. getting irritated, she actually set fire to the bedroom. yesterday, the two families came to terms. xiao qian's family paid lin yu's family ￥30,000.

alike in face, unlike in weight (chutian metropolis daily 2006-8-15)

it’s hardly to tell apart the twin sisters at first sight for they are alike in face but unlike in weight. one is plump while the other is slim. this startling change dates from march when the younger sister was sent to beijing for two-month advanced study. she took paiyousu diet pills and lost 14 kg in the staying.

girl was tailed in early morning - elders fought off gangsters with swords (chutian metropolis daily 2006-05-14)

at 5:00 a.m. yesterday, miss du, a clothing storeowner in yanzhi road, wuchang, left her friend’s flat. on the way home, she was tailed and robbed by two men. at the critical moment, four white-headed elders burst out and fought off the gangsters with their exercising swords.

a bleeding man crawling out of video arcade in the early morning (chutian golden paper 2006-07-09)

at 2 a.m. yesterday, the witness ms. xue was on the way out for night snack with her friend. when passing by a video arcade near hanxi road, jianshe avenue, hankou, she heard tussles and then saw three young men left in minutes. around 5 a.m., she returned and found a bleeding man crawling out of the video arcade.

[all liyu + liubo. from the project 13 months in the year of the dog.]