Can Pictures Do Us Justice?

"According to a 2018 U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics report, African-American adults are five times as likely to be convicted of a crime as white adults. Rather than focusing on the impact of incarceration, though, Baxter’s series flips the script and focuses on those who have been able to get away with crimes—which, according to her, is all of us." 

Emily Baxter, StepUp Durham volunteer, went from a Minnesota public defender to running The North Carolina Coalition for Alternative to the Death Penalty. Read more about her story in recent Indy Week article, Photographer Emily Baxter Works in the Gap Between Crime and Conviction, here.