The title of New York-based photographer Dom Marker’s most up-to-date sequence, “Sin Tax,” is a double entendre. In a single sense referencing the federal government tax on gadgets deemed dangerous to society (which, inadvertently or in any other case, preys on the working poor), the phrase additionally alludes to its homophone, “syntax.” Marker elaborates, explaining:
“This venture, half elliptical storytelling, half cultural mirror, focuses on the mnemonics of decrease class areas (roughly divided in half between New York and the American south) by way of avenue indicators, storefronts, graffiti, standalone phrases and quick phrases. Phrases inside images, particularly when paired with different such images that conflict in tone, can shortly lose their didactic, if not propagandistic, high quality by subversion and distance. My intent is to juxtapose this charged typography with emotional moments in narrative sequence, whereby the paradoxical wishes and systematic abuse inherent in our class construction will be advised vis-à-vis the visible lexicon of the individuals.”
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