My research primarily focuses on ongoing and historical LGBTQ+ issues. My most recent work explored how medical surveillance and systems of power spread misinformation and partake in mass exploitation of and discrimination against minorities.
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A 33-minute documentary explores the role of art as a sousveillance system to spread awareness about bottom-up and top-down discrimination and injustice against minority communities during the AIDs Epidemic. Please reach out to akarry@tulane.edu to request a copy of this file. A personal, photography project accompanies the research and is accessible below.
In this project, my photography focuses on buildings that signify wealth or power, whether familial, judicial, or religious. I took one unaltered piece of each image and made many different images using only that piece. This manipulation emulates similar mechanisms of misinformation. Information can be unfiltered and unaltered, but its presentation and the receiver's perception of information change the entire connotation of its message.