She began documenting the racially segregated high school proms in Justin Patterson’s hometown of Montgomery County, Georgia, in the early aughts.
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Laub is a photographer whose camera often zooms in on the invisible but impenetrable things that divide us her 2005 awardwinning photo and interview series “Testimony” focused on Israeli Jews, Arabs and Palestinians. Perhaps Gillian Laub’s beautiful, elegiac documentary Southern Rites, which has its broadcast debut on HBO on May 18, will help give Patterson’s name the recognition it deserves. In short, Patterson’s name ought to be as familiar as many others on the grim roll call of unarmed black people killed by armed white people claiming self-defense, often in the face of dubious and contradictory evidence. It should, for many, bring to mind the image of a 22-year-old who will never live to see his daughter grow up or experience old age, while his murderer lives out his twilight years in South Georgia’s pastoral countryside. His name should be recognized by people outside of his grieving immediate family, which includes his younger brother Sha’von, who held Justin in his arms just before he bled to death.
Justin Patterson’s name should be known far beyond the courtroom where his killer-who fired shots at Patterson even as he was running away-was sentenced to just one year for his murder.
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