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Inspired by the American murder ballad, a genre of traditional folk songs in which women are often killed by men, the photographer captures a psychogeography that’s both strange and familiar.

The American murder ballad belongs to a tradition of austere folk songs that migrated from Britain and Ireland to America along with several waves of 19th-century emigrants. Knoxville Girl, for instance, which was first recorded in 1924, and later covered by the Louvin Brothers, Nick Cave and the Handsome Family among others, is an adaptation of an Irish song, The Wexford Girl, which itself was based on and older English ballad The Oxford Girl.

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