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Jeremy Green “I AM A Man” 09/19/18

It was 50 years ago this year that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis at the Lorraine Motel. This monument is the centerpiece of a permanent memorial plaza called “I Am A Man Plaza” that sculptor Cliff Garten of Los Angeles designed and built for the City of Memphis. He hired me to come to Memphis to photograph the entire installation, and I have been working on it for a couple of days. This image, with just the shadow of one of my models, seemed iconic when I saw it in the viewfinder. It was shot just hours ago. I love that.