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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Along the ancient path\Nof the Monongahela River,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Braddock, Pennsylvania, sits\Nin the eastern region of Allegheny County,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,approximately nine miles\Noutside of Pittsburgh.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An industrial suburb,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Braddock is home\Nto Andrew Carnegie's first steel mill,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Edgar Thomson Works.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Operating since 1875,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is the last functioning steel mill
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the region.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For 12 years, I have produced\Ncollaborative portraits,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,still lives, landscapes, and aerial views
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to build a visual archive
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to address the intersection
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the steel industry,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the envirnoment,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the health care system's impact
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the bodies of my family and community.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The tradition and grand\Nnarrative of Braddock
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is mostly comprised of stories
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of industrialists and trade unions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Currently, the new narrative\Nabout Braddock,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a poster child for Rust Belt\Nrevitalization,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a story of urban pioneers
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,discovering a new frontier.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mass media has omitted the fact
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Braddock is predominantly black.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our existence has been co-opted,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,silenced, and erased.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fourth generation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a lineage of women,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was raised under the protection and care
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Grandma Ruby,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,off 8th Street
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at 805 Washington Avenue.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She worked as a manager for Goodwill.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mom was a nurse's aid.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She watched the steel mills close
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and white flight to suburban developments.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the time my generation\Nwalked the streets,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,disinvestment at the local,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,state, and federal level
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eroded infrastructure,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the War on Drugs
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dismantled my family and community.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Grandma Ruby's stepfather Gramps
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was one of a few black men to retire\Nfrom Carnegie's mill with his pension.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He worked in high temperatures,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tearing down and rebuilding furnaces,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cleaning up spilt metal and slag.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The history of a place is written
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the body and the landscape.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Areas of heavy truck traffic,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exposure to benzene and atomized metals,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,risk cancer and lupus.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,123 licensed beds, 652 employees:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rehabilitation programs, decimated.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A housing discrimination lawsuit\Nagainst Allegheny County
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,removed where the projects\N[????] towers once stood.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Recent rezoning for more light industry
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has since appeared.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Google Maps and Google Earth pixellations
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conceal the flammable waste
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being used to squeeze the Bunn Family\Noff their home and land.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2013, I chartered a helicopter
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with my cameras to document
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this aggressive dispossession.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In flight, my observation reveals
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thousands of plastic white bundles
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,owned by a conservation industry
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that claims it's eco-friendly
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and recycles millions of tires
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to preserve people's lives
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to improve people's lives.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My work spirals from the micro
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the macro level,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,excavating hidden histories.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Recently, at the Seattle Art Museum,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isaac Bunn and I mounted this exhibition,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the exhibition was used\Nas a platform to launch his voice.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Through reclamation of our narrative,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will continue to fight historic erasure
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and socioeconomic inequality.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)