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In White Noise Mark Peterson examines the rhetoric of the White House on immigration and Muslim bans, and how this echoes and intersects with nationalism, Western chauvinism, white supremacy, neo-Nazis, and all those calling for an ethnostate in America. Peterson began his project as a means to understand the divisive mood of the country following the 2016 presidential election. His often confronting subjects include anti-Muslim rallies in New York; families on Confederate Memorial Day in the South; white nationalists protesting in Charlottesville, preceding the murder of Heather Heyer; leaders of the Ku Klux Klan in their homes; burning swastikas. The result is a vital and unsettling portrait of the normalization of this reality in the United States; in Claudia Rankine’s words: “What our government won’t acknowledge Mark Peterson has. His images focus on the terror that has taken advantage of our refusal to look it squarely in its face and acknowledge it as homegrown and thriving.” Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. - Elie Wiesel

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Mark Peterson’s photographs have been published in the New York Times Magazine, New York, The New Yorker, Fortune, Time and Geo, among many others. His awards include the 2018 W. Eugene Smith Fund Grant for his work on white supremacy in the United States, and his photographs have been featured in numerous exhibitions including “Museums are Worlds” at the Louvre in 2012. Steidl published Peterson’s Political Theatre in 2016, one of Time’s Best Photobooks of 2016 and winner for traditional book at the 2017 Lucie Photo Book Prize. In 2017 Photo District News named Peterson Photographer of the Year for Political Theatre and his campaign work.

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