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AMY ELKINS
Black is the Day, Black is the Night
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February 1 – April 1, 2018

In a letter written to photographer Amy Elkins, a 32-year old prison inmate serving his 19th year of incarceration wrote, "There is a cage we all long to escape from. Your cage, may not be mine. My cage may not be yours." This concept of respective internment is consistent throughout Elkin's works. Whether it's through her tableaus of capital punishment, or portraits of youth beholden to a (often contradictory) code of social expectations, Elkins explores the literal …