Since the inauguration of the 45th President of the United States, I have been creating photograms. The text that repeats throughout these images, 202-456-1111, is the White House phone number, which began the current administration disconnected.

I’m not sure if photograms is the exact term for these works. A friend called them chemigrams, but after looking it up, I learned that chemigrams are made in full light. These are made quickly, like a protest sign, and in the dark. They are made with arms and legs that have a rare congenital condition, arthrogryposis, the same one that NY Times reporter Serge F. Kovaleski—who 45 mocked on November 25, 2015—lives with.

The repetition of resistance requires very close scrutiny. The lives of the targets of this administration are infinite, complex, and irreducible. When we become students of these lives, as well as our own, the multitude of details we discover implores us to become more fully formed and in formation with each other. -JL 2018

*Integral to the spirit of these works, Lazarus actively donates the original photogram prints to a variety of social justice and non-profit arts organizations for their respective fundraising efforts, please send donation inquiries to .

202-456-1111
Project Monograph: Jason Lazarus with a text by Martha Rosler
7.5 x 90 inch accordion folded piece and 7.5 x 9 inch, 40 page saddle-stitched book, screen-printed envelope, Edition of 250, VSW Press Visual Book Club, 2018