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Lens & Letters

Zuri A. Stanback, Sr.

A behind-the-scenes journey through images, videos, and narratives that reveal the making of my lens-based projects as they evolve into published books, art exhibits, and documentary short films.

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Happy Accidents

I recently fucked up.

Loaded what I thought was a fresh roll of film into my camera. Turned out it was half-exposed already. Shot over images I’d carefully composed for my Vanishing Point and Beaten Tracks projects—structures I’d specifica...

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The Complete Journey

Over the past 2 weeks, I’ve shared the story behind BTNTRX.V1: the conversation that revealed what I was photographing, the research that showed the pattern extended across Atlanta, the infrastructure that enforces division, and my approach...

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Beauty in the Beaten Path

Why minimal human presence? Why atmospheric conditions? Why photograph overlooked places at all? In this video, I share my photographic approach for BTNTRX.V1 and what this book ultimately became—a meditation on infrastructure as dividing l...

4 months ago
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Infrastructure as Barrier

The Racial Dot Map showed me the pattern: railroad tracks as demographic dividing lines across Atlanta. But data visualization is one thing. Physical infrastructure is another.

When you stand at a railroad crossing and study the history of...

5 months ago
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By Design: How Railroads Divided Atlanta

After the encounter in Scottdale, I needed to know two things:

  1. Is the pattern of racial and cultural division along railroad tracks still present today?

  2. How were railroad tracks used to define the neighborhoods along the 2 mile...

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    I'm an Atlanta-based multimedia artist and documentarian investigating the intersection of place, memory, and transformation through lens-based mediums.

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