In the U.S., approximately 1,000 people continue to die each year in encounters with police, more than any other industrialized nation. My America is an archive of, and memorial to, victims of these encounters. The photographs, taken at locations where citizens were shot or tasered by law enforcement officers, create a quiet but chilling critique of the contemporary United States. The scale of the book attests to the scale of the problem, yet Matar asks us to remember these are individuals.
Read a Columbia News interview with Professor Matar about My America.