CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/19/2014

Doug Rickard: N.A.

Featured image is reproduced from N.A., photographer Doug Rickard's exceedingly dark—and all too representative—collection of stills from American YouTube smartphone videos. Time magazine's Krystal Grow writes, "Visual imagery uploaded online is transient at best, but for Rickard, they illustrate larger, darker issues of racism, class inequality and hypocrisy. As images continue to fall haphazardly into the ethers of the internet, Rickard is sifting through them, pulling from our collective virtual consciousness the angst, irony and at times outright aggressiveness we exhibit on quasi-public online forums, but prefer to ignore in the real world."