Probable Cause

Samenvatting

This is a story of an ongoing journey, visiting intimately anunderground world where the lines between the police and thepeople they are protecting are blurred into one. Conducting aten-year investigation while embedded in the police force of NewarkNJ, Artist Matt Gunther gained access to a system where the meansof enforcement are as archaic as the very notion that simply enforcingwill solve the problems.If you believe in karma, or are willing to entertain it as a metaphor,you might think of the collective of humanity-and the humanmicrocosm of police officers, suspects, and victims so vividly shownin Probable Cause-in the way that the Buddhist teacher SharonSalzberg describes it: "In this inconceivably immense reality, we haveall wandered forever... Through this timelessness we ... have all doneeverything, every one of us: we have loved, hated, feared, killed,raped, stolen, given, served, loved.... We are all one another'sparents, children, friends, lovers, and enemies, over and over again." Matt Gunther, a native new Yorker, isa film-maker and photographer whohas been documenting a sense ofplace and moments of timethroughout his career. His portraitsendeavour to uncover and expose thevulnerability and compassion - thecore of his subjects. Matt received hisBachelor's in Fine Arts from SUNYPurchase. Matt's work has beenfeatured in numerous internationaland national publications, includingThe New York Times Magazine,Newsweek, London Sunday Times andGentlemen's Quarterly. His work hasbeen praised and written about inAmerican Photography, PDN, andCommunication Arts, among others.Matt's work is in the permanentcollection of the Brooklyn Museumand The Palais De Toyko in Paris. Magical Thinking is a not-for-profit publishing and educationalinitiative founded by Joshua Lutz and Tara Cronin in 2010. Itscommitment to furthering our understanding of the importance of howimages function revolves around a programme of books, exhibitionsand educational workshops.