My Proposal - Research & Development

Photographer - Detrick - Image titled 'Posing As Dutch Schultz'

Here is how police and ambulance doctors found Dutch Schultz in Newark cafe after machine gun attack. Detective Michael Beachman poses to show how Dutch was crumpled over table. It was on this detectives found a tell tale pack of tally sheets showing Schultz' income from illicit sources was $827,000 for one month. page 62 and 63, taken from New York Noir.

Paul Bernius

Photo shows: Deputy Commissioner Kennedy (light suit) and Chief Inspector Thomas Nielson watch detectives examine body of Willie Mentor, which was fished out of the water. August 20 1954, page 98 - New York Noir

Ken Korotkin

While most of the city sleeos, a police photographer takes foto of the body of Joan Wilson, shot to death in a lonely Times Square Parking lot - May 23 1964

Photographer - Arthur Fellig (Weegee) - Spot Murder

August 7, 1936. Close up of man (Dominick Didato) found killed on Elizabeth Street. In front of Italian restaurant a few blocks from the police hdqs. Note gun besides body. These photos were made a few minutes after shots were fired - Photographer's caption
Pages 66 & 67, taken from New York Noir

Body Of Evidence (cont)

Envelope which contained an anoymous letter sent to Aracely Esmeralda Montanez's mother whose daughter was murdered in 1995. The letter gave the name of the person the writer claimed murdered her daughter.

Ei8ht, Dirty, Vol 6 N0 2, Autumn 2007

Body Of Evidence (cont)

Settling of scores during the day between drug traffickers on one of the main avenues of Ciudad Juarez. Two people are left dead, one wounded.

Ei8ht, Dirty, Vol 6 N0 2, Autumn 2007

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Cynthia was six when her sister Aracely Esmeralda Montanez whose portrait she holds, was murdered. Now she is 18, and doesn't want to be recognised for fear she maybe killed the same way her sister was.

Ei8ht, Dirty, Vol 6 N0 2, Autumn 2007

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The body of a woman murdered in 1998 from the newspaper El Norte

Ei8ht, Dirty, Vol 6 N0 2, Autumn 2007

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The Northern cemetery of Ciudad Juarez.Many bodies of murdered and unidentified women and buried here.

Ei8ht, Dirty, Vol 6 N0 2, Autumn 2007

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Since 1993, about 400 women have been brutally murdered in Ciudad Juarez. Juarez is the forth largets city in Mexico, a town 1.5 million inhabitants . It is the stronghold of one of the most important latin american drug cartels and boasts one of the worlds busiest border points, crossing into the US. Juarez accomadates hunderds of thousands of workers employed in 250 maquiladoras or vast factories, located along the dessert border line. These assembly plants, relocated from the north America, Asia or Europe, attract workers from all over Mexico. Most of these migrants are young, underqualified women who always accept hard work and are stacked up in slums on the city's outskirts. More than 10 years after th emurder of the first victim discovered in the dessert betwen the US & Mexico, the authorities still cannot set out those responsible for the massacre, or give a convincing explanation for the tragedy.

Body Of Evidence

Body Of Evidence - Guillaume Herbaut - Over the last five years Guillaume Herbaut has been working on a photographic project in which he visited seven differnt places where something dramatic happened, something that wold change the destiny of those who encountered it. From his grandmothers apartment in the french town of Livry just after her death, to Shkodra in albania, city of Vendetta (featured in ei8ht V5N3). What links these stories, whether intimate or universal. is that they force us to change the way we see the world.

Herbaus investigative approach to the gruesome, unresolved murders of women in ciudad Juanez, Mexico, mirrors press photographers working on a news story, recovering documents of importance from the victims family or from the police. The result is a compelling, forensic looking reportage that seeks as much to question as to provide information.