East Liverpool Ohio USA
22 Feb, 2024
I am making a photographic body of work on the town East Liverpool, Ohio in the United States. I was in East Liverpool when a young woman named Tiffany Faulk was brutally murdered by her boyfriend. Tiffany was beaten with a baseball bat 72 times to the head by her boyfriend. He was cracked out on a mixture of drugs. I approached Tiffany's family and they allowed me to photograph at the funeral. This was the beginning of my project. I met Mary Jane Foster who began telling me everything she knew about what was going on in East Liverpool, and I began to get beneath the surface of the town with my camera.
Scott Houston is a documentary and conceptual photographer whose work is concerned with the cultural, social, and political landscape of contemporary America. He is a chronicler of American culture whose work has received world wide publication for projects on incarceration, the culture of consumerism, the decline of American manufacturing, and many other pertinent issues in contemporary American culture.