Banned goods at JFK Airport shed light on American desires
There were containers filled with Botox-making ingredients, fake Louis Vuitton handbags and dead guinea pigs. There were animal parts, cigars and steroids. Viagra from China and GBL, the date-rape drug, freshly arrived from Europe.
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And it was at JFK that Taryn Simon, an internationally renowned photographer, spent five days and nights in 2009 sleeping on an air mattress, documenting this ordinary deluge of bizarre goods into a major port of cargo and passenger entry into the U.S., an Ellis Island of sorts for illegal commodities. "Myself and my team got very little sleep under the blinding fluorescent lights. It was torturous. I could barely stand on the last day," said Simon. Before she set up camp on the weathered floors in one of the airport's busiest terminals, Simon spent several months explaining to airport authorities what her project was about. "There was a long period of letter writing and many phone calls behind my stay at JFK," said Simon. "The difficulty was that I was requesting a lengthy shoot -- five continuous days, on 24-hour rotations," she said. The result is "Contraband," a 1075-photographic series that will be exhibited in New York and Beverly Hills, California. A 500-page book with the same title is coming out soon. |
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