Justin Maxon

Photographer

Nationality

American

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Chester: Staring Down the White Gaze

Chester: Staring Down The White Gaze

Chester layered, multi-authored exploration of how whiteness, white supremacy, and white nationalism operate in American visual culture by turning the white gaze back on itself—making it personal to reveal how it functions from within.

Project by Justin Maxon
Sissy Boy Sweet

Sissy Boy Sweet

Sissy Boy Sweet seeks to confront the hegemony of white masculinity that defines the viable traits of manhood.

Project by Justin Maxon
Reservation High

Reservation High

Reservation High follows the Surber family as they navigate the front lines of the Fentanyl crisis on the Hoopa Valley Reservation. The Surber family's story illustrates how systemic failures and a legacy of colonization compounds the current crisis.

Project by Justin Maxon
Eureka!

Eureka!

Eureka! seeks to challenge and deconstruct the social stigma associated with substance abuse. It asks viewers to look deeper, to understand better, and to embrace the shared humanity that unites us all, even amidst our differences.

Project by Justin Maxon
Heaven's Gain

Heaven's Gain

With 300 unsolved murders in the last two decades, Chester, PA is known as a place where you can get away with murder. This project is a deep investigation into the emotional, physical and spiritual landscape that transpires from unresolved trauma.

Project by Justin Maxon