Photographer Mitch Epstein, thin and professorial with gray hair and glasses, does not exactly cut a menacing figure.
When he ducks beneath the dark cloth of his 8-by-10 view camera, the words that come most readily to mind are late Victorian, not potentially violent. But one afternoon several years ago in the tiny Ohio River Valley town of Poca, W. Va., he found himself and his assistant surrounded by police cruisers, watching as sheriffs searched their rental car and came up with a stack of Polaroids of power plants much like the coal-fired one that towered across the river.
Photo by: Chang W. Lee/
The New York Times
This discovery led to the summoning of an F.B.I. agent, who concluded after much deliberation that Mr. Epstein had broken no laws by taking pictures near the plant, but told him, as he later recalled, “If you were Muslim, you’d be cuffed and taken in for questioning.”
Source: New York Times. ART & DESIGN, By RANDY KENNEDY, Oct 9, 2009
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