The photographer theo_wenner reflects on a few of the images in 'Homicide'—his new book of photographs chronicling a year spent riding along with the NYPD’s North Brooklyn Homicide squad.
: I’ve always been really interested in this subject, maybe because it’s so much a part of American mythology. It’s like a Western, or baseball. I love the subculture and all of the unwritten codes of this world. I wanted to see what it looks like now. Does it actually exist like you think it does? The way they dress, the way they talk?There are several of your pictures that, if you told me they were taken in 1955, I would believe you.It’s completely true.
Detectives Alex Grandstaff and Mike Jimenez return to the scene of a homicide. A male allegedly attacked his girlfriend with an axe.Like you said, policing is part of the American mythology. The police procedural is one of the most reliable television spots. But it’s always murder police. It’s about death, right? It’s about life and death.Dets. Thomas Handley and Matt Lamendola gather witness statements from neighbors who may have heard a shooting in the hallway.
There are certain photographs you know are good when you take them, and this calendar shot was one of them. Especially with the silhouette of the detective in the background. That detective, Mike Windsor, was like, “That’s my favorite photo in the book. Because you can’t see me.”It’s all about ball-busting, constantly, with these guys. From the moment they walk into the office to the moment they leave, it’s just a running dialogue of ball-busting.
A male victim was killed in the building’s ground-floor hallway. Three other victims escaped up the stairs and survived.It was raining the night I took this photograph. Pouring rain. This was in a building referred to by the detectives as “the Smurf Houses.” I guess they’re quite dangerous, this row of buildings. I think quite a few homicides have happened there. Actually, two happened there when I was with them. Anyway they called them the Smurf Houses because they’re small.
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