milesfrommaybe

Walter Murch: “Most movies use music the way athletes use steroids. There’s no question that you can induce a certain emotion with music — just like steroids build up muscle. It gives you an edge, it gives you speed, but it’s unhealthy for the organism in the long run.”

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An estimated 20,000 children were born from rapes committed during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Intended Consequences chronicles the lives of these women. Their narratives are embodied in portrait photographs, interviews and oral reflections about the daily challenges they face today. See the project at MediaStorm.

Next week MediaStorm will launch my latest project, a collaboration with photographer Scott Strazzante.

On July 2, 2002, Jean and Harlow Cagwin watched as their home – the last remnant of their 118-acre cattle farm in Lockport, Illinois – was torn down clearing the way for a new housing development. Several years later, Ed and Amanda Grabenhofer and their four children moved into the new Willow Walk subdivision, their house just yards from where the Cagwin’s home once stood.

Common Ground introduces us to the lives touched by this land, as photographer Scott Strazzante takes us on a visual journey exploring the differences and similarities of these two families while simultaneously asking us to look at what is common among us all.