Julie Fisher

United Kingdom

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In places in America racism is still rife, even within the justice system. It can be argued that more African Americans are executed than whites, especially in historical contexts. The bald eagle has been blinded on both its ´sides´: black and white. It is now ruined and useless. The tears it cries represent those who have been executed and until its eyes heal the blood and tears will
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Death is not justice


Our 2010 project asked for the universal abolition of the death penalty.
For us it’s simple. The death penalty is a violation of human rights. Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” How does that fit with beheading, stoning, hanging, lethally injecting or shooting someone?

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An eye for an eye will make us all blind

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