Susan Berger: Life and Soul: American Streets Honoring Martin Luther King | LENSCRATCH

Today marks the birthday of iconic civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. and on this MLK Day when we consider past and current heartbreaking histories, we are featuring a project that celebrates the streets that reflect his name, all across America.  Susan Berger’s chronicle of place, Life and Soul: American Streets Honoring Martin Luther King, is a five year documentation of 33 of the estimated 900 MLK streets in the U.S, from Chicago to Milwaukee, Newark, Philadelphia, Seattle and New York. She went to Macon, Georgia; Beaumont, Texas; Shreveport, Louisiana; Little Rock, Arkansas; Jackson, Mississippi; Birmingham, Alabama; and more, ultimately visiting 17 states and the District of Columbia. The photographs are shot on film and printed by the artist as silver gelatin prints, echoing the style of the news photographs that documented the Civil Rights Movement.