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John Trotter
John, a native of Missouri, in the Midwestern United States, worked as a newspaper photojournalist for fourteen years, on stories large and small, local and international. In 1997, while photographing in Sacramento, California, a gang accosted John, demanding his film. He was summarily beaten, left for dead, bleeding on a sidewalk. Over the next two and a half months he was in rehabilitation. After his attack while working he needed to learn how to be a photographer once again.
MoreThrough this act of fixing images outside his injured brain, he learned to place himself once again in time. His body of work The Burden of Memory has been broadly published, exhibited and praised. John is also working on an ongoing project focused on the massive human alteration of the Colorado River. He is based in Brooklyn, New York.
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John Trotter
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Women march into American politics
John Trotter
After the 2016 election of Donald Trump, a man who campaigned on sexist, racist rhetoric, an unprecedented number of women have decided to run for political office across the United States, many of them for the first time. The Women’s March, on the day after Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, can be seen now as…
MoreNo Agua, No Vida
Since 2001, I have been photographing the consequences of the sweeping human alteration of the Colorado River, in the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. The Colorado, I soon learned,…
MoreNevada
About twenty years ago I was wandering around in Nevada with my camera, compelled to photograph there and hoping that doing so would help me articulate the story I needed…
MoreTrumpistan, the resistance
Following the nomination of Donald Trump as president of the United States, demonstrations have spread in the streets, unlike what has been seen in the US in the past decades,…
MoreThe Burden of Memory
"With the loss of memory the continuities of meaning and judgment are also lost to us. The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God,…
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