Ervin Johnson
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Photographer Ervin Johnson’s #InHonor wheat paste campaign uses the frustrations articulated by the movement as a point of departure.The Chicago-based photographer says he used a “mixed-media photo technique to exert physical force”, violently marking up portraits of his friends’ faces. The black figures in Johnson’s portrait series–with their eyes wide open, and faces scared–appear dead. “I want the viewer to consider the fate of these black lives and question what separates them from any of those who have already died,” says Johnson.