LEAP | Presenting “41 to ’99: A Photo Essay” from mcmellon Watch Video
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Description: LEAP presents “41 to ‘99” by Steven “Sweatpants” Irby, a series featuring forty-one candles in memoriam of the forty-one bullets fired at 23-year old, Amadou Diallo in 1999. Reimagining the candlelight vigil, Irby repurposes his candles to penetrate the invisible wall that protects certain privileged communities from the reality of police violence.nnThe photo essay relinquishes Black victimhood and instead offers a plea to hold officers Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon, an
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