Australian Murder Victims (1910-1960)
Excerpts from the forensic photography archive at the Justice & Police Museum in Sydney, Australia which contains an estimated 130,000 negatives created by the New South Wales Police between 1910 and 1960.
Tag Archives: Homicide
Modern Day Racial Segregation and White on Black Murder: Gillian Laub’s ‘Southern Rites’
The words, “Southern Rites”, are at once a pun on the American ritual of prom… and an echo of the infamous canard, “state’s rights”.
Richard Ramirez: “Night Stalking the Iconoclastic”
Satanic Panic Part II
Arianna Arcara & Luca Santese – “Found Photos in Detroit”
Arcara and Santese provide an unexpected portrait of Detroit, eschewing the obvious for something more cerebral. The majestic decay of lavish theaters, incomprehensibly large car plants, and skyscrapers of former luxury are not to be found here.
Tuol Sleng Prison: “Execution Portraits”
Photographs taken shortly before the execution of prisoners at S-21, also known as Tuol Sleng Prison, during the reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. This was Pol Pot’s secret prison, used during his genocidal rule (1975-79). Between 1-2 million Cambodians – and many thousands of foreigners – were starved to death, tortured, or killed, […]