Maximum Distance. Minimum Displacement.: Tupac — Archival Photo

Tupac Shakur was born in New York, defined in Oakland, and buried in Las Vegas. Maximum Distance. Minimum Displacement.: Tupac maps the physics of that life — maximum distance traveled, minimum displacement from origin — rendered as a long-exposure light drawing and printed at gallery scale.

Part of the MDMD series: data visualization as fine art photography, applied to the geography of hip-hop careers. Archival photographic print, 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.