Rachel Hall

In a recent Simpson’s flash-forward, the prophet Marge Simpson told her husband, “You know, Homer, FOX became a hard-core porn channel so gradually I never even noticed it.” Meanwhile, in the present, trendy fashion shops for young women sell baby tees adorned with the Playboy bunny logo, or the words “Porn Star” or “Hooker” on […]

How do you document something in the process of disappearing? How do you take a photograph of someone, some place, some thing no longer there? The potential pitfalls of such work include falling in love with what’s been lost and remaking it in one’s own image. There’s the pull toward sentimentality, the feeling that we […]