{"id":269,"date":"2007-12-21T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=269"},"modified":"2007-12-21T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T10:22:00","slug":"lloyd-wolfs-street-shrines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Lloyd Wolf's street shrines"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Recently in the Washington Informer<\/i> Patrice Gaines wrote about Lloyd Wolf’s photographs of homemade street shrines to murder victims in Washington DC. Washington is home to a number of other more high profile shrines – and it’s clear to me that these are more like the “forgotten ones”.<\/p>\n

I try not to get too high and mighty about politics on the blog, however, we as a nation seem to be more interested in the plight of other people in other nations, and are increasingly turning a blind eye to our own communities. Sometimes our light needs to be turned inward to see the problems we face on a more local level. Lloyds photographs carry a serious “personal is political” philosophy behind them and are all the more powerful because of it.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong, I know not everyone gets to have a white marble monument, and I know it’s hard everywhere, sometimes it just seems like we become too distracted by the things that are so far away.<\/p>\n

Here’s the article<\/a><\/p>\n

Above, Lloyd Wolf<\/b>, DeOnte’ Rawlings’s Shrine<\/i>, 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently in the Washington Informer Patrice Gaines wrote about Lloyd Wolf’s photographs of homemade street shrines to murder victims in Washington DC. Washington is home to a number of other more high profile shrines – and it’s clear to me that these are more like the “forgotten ones”. I try not to get too high and mighty about politics on the blog, however, we as a nation seem to be more interested in the plight of other people in other nations, and are increasingly turning a blind eye to our own communities. Sometimes our light needs to be turned inward…<\/p>\n

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