The Jena Project is a remixed, visual analysis of online speech, as seen through a year's worth of comment threads and discussions of photographs and video made by Michael David Murphy during 2007's trials, protests, and marches for the Jena Six in Jena, Louisiana.
A mixed-media project, The Jena Project pulls back the curtain on America's "conversation on race", while mapping language from an up-close (and often binary) street-level perspective.
The Jena Project was on view at Opal Gallery in Atlanta, GA in September, 2008, in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography. A corresponding panel discussion on "Photojournalism, Activism and the New Technology was held on Sept. 20th, 2008, at Hammonds House Museum.