Maximum Distance. Minimum Displacement.: Nasir — Archival Photo

Nasir Jones never moved far from Queensbridge — but his discography moved everywhere. Maximum Distance. Minimum Displacement.: Nasir visualizes that tension using physics: calculating the gap between the maximum distance his career reached and his actual displacement from home. That calculation becomes a long-exposure light drawing, printed at gallery scale.

Part of the MDMD series, which applies scientific measurement to hip-hop biography to produce fine art photographs. Archival print on photographic paper, edition of 5. Comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and ships rolled in a wide archival tube.

Edition of 5. Comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Ships rolled in a wide archival tube.

A work by Tahir Hemphill — Creative Capital Grantee, Harvard W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Fellow, and artist whose work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art.