What Does Mercy Look Like? James Whitlow Delano Sought an Answer – NYTimes.com

What Does Mercy Look Like?

James Whitlow Delano sought an answer — many answers — and is raising money for hospice and palliative care in the process, as Niko Koppel reports.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/what-does-mercy-look-like/

Mercy is commonly defined as compassion, forgiveness, kindness or an act of piety. But photographs of prisoners reaching through bars, a wrestler being contorted by masked men and an infant dressed for burial are among the many interpretations of the word in the book “The Mercy Project/Inochi,” created and curated by James Whitlow Delano.