American Inquisition

2024-2026

The United States of America is what it was founded to be. American Inquisition is a series of photographs that seeks to highlight the continued practice of oppressing the marginalized in service of the ruling class. A nation founded on white supremacist values can not exist without continuously upholding those values. White Americans benefit from hard and soft power of the state as long as they are complicit in violence against any group suggested by the powerful. Now, at last, the atrocities are recorded by the citizens and released without the government’s lens of absolute righteousness. On video the oppression that has always existed against people of color finally becomes plain, but only when perpetrated against white individuals.

American Inquisition simultaneously represents the past and the present. The propaganda of American exceptionalism and the realities it tries to obscure have remained the same for two hundred and fifty years. It is up to individuals to see through the theater of politics and to decide for themselves whether to believe their eyes or the state.

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