Tag: Jerome Brunet

  • jerome brunet – cops | burn magazine

    jerome brunet – cops

    [slidepress gallery=’jeromebrunet-cops’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Jérôme Brunet Cops: Riding Shotgun with Texas Sheriffs play this essay   When …

    via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/01/jerome-brunet-cops/

    When asked why I’m interested in law enforcement, I’m compelled to reply, “We all should be.”  The fact that we know so incredibly little about our ‘boys in blue’ all though we see them on our street corners and of course in more dramatized versions on television and in Hollywood, I’ve always been interested in the symbolic aspect of the modern day police officer; the man with the badge, gun and authority to dramatically change a persons life forever.

  • Jérôme Brunet – Riding Shotgun with Texas Sheriffs « Prison Photography

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    Jérôme Brunet’s photo essay Riding Shotgun with Texas Sheriff’s is a ferocious document of police activity and procedure in America’s ‘love-to-hate’ lone star state. I am in deep admiration of this project for it connects the dots and marries everything in a police officer’s routine from violent confrontation to mundane paperwork.

    Check it out here.