Shantelle Jennings shares military evaluations of her father, Billy Mann, pictured smoking a cigarette: “There is an evaluation made about his mental status. It states, ‘He is emotionally unstable, immature, insecure, resents authority, is suspicious and seclusive, lacks the ability to exercise sound judgment.’” Mann was a violent user of drugs who died from an overdose about seven years after Larry Clark took this photograph.

From the exhibition: Where Words Falter: Art and Empathy (July 9 – December 18, 2022)