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PROPERTY RIGHTS - MITCH EPSTEIN LEINEN

Who owns the land  by whose authority  and with what rights? These questions led Mitch Epstein
to make Property Rights  a collection of photographs and short texts examining the American
government's ongoing legacy of property confiscation  and how communities gather to resist.
Epstein began this series in 2017 at Standing Rock  where thousands protested the installation
of the Dakota Access Pipeline on Sioux land. Over four years  he charted other contested lands
from Pennsylvania and Hawaii to the Mexican border  as well as land loss through wildfires and
flooding due to egregious environmental negligence. In keeping with Epstein's 50-year
exploration of American life  Property Rights questions the relationship between institutions 
civil rights and the rights of nature itself. Acknowledging our bodies and lives as our most
fundamental property  the book examines other forms of trespass and destruction in an elegy to
the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre  and in photographs of Black Lives Matter protests during
Covid-19. Property Rights includes the voices of activists Epstein interviewed while making
this deeply personal and political work. In a time of alarming division  the book describes
diverse communities in a common fight against politicians and plutocrats willing to sacrifice
the people's well-being.

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