The Verdict: The Christina Boyer Case Pastoral photographs of green fields

Pastoral photographs of green fields and hedgerows reveal themselves to be images of conflict and dispute — despite the steadiness of the photographic frame and the clarity of Graham’s vision

and the reflective efforts which move back and forth in seeing the history and the basic questions raised from the journey of MES 56

Whether it is to open the debate around the boundaries of women ́s rights or to insist on the condescending attribution of prostitution as the oldest profession (when there are doubts that it is even a profession and certainty that it is not the oldest)

the secondary forest started being cleared

while the parents come sniffing around to assess her suitability for their children

The Verdict: The Christina Boyer Case Pastoral photographs of green fieldsThe Verdict is a multi layered case study of the US Criminal Justice system and mass incarceration. Jan Banning delves into a three decades old murder case in Georgia. On April 14, 1992, 22 year old Christina Boyer was arrested for the murder of her toddler daughter Amber and sentenced to life in prison. Combining documentary as well as staged photos with texts, it unravels the role of the media, presents analyses by medical professionals, and gives