NYT: "For [some] projects, [Taryn] Simon started with individual people rather than with institutions and showed the ways in which their lives collided with forces over which they had little control. For 'The Innocents' (2000-3), she photographed people who had been convicted of rape or murder but were eventually exonerated by DNA evidence, often going with them to the scene of the crime; for 'A Living Man Declared Dead' (2008-11), she made 922 portraits of every descendant she could find of 18 families, all over the world, whose ancestors were often victims or perpetrators of violent events. In gridded rows of portraits she tried to trace the generational traumas that stirred behind people’s faces and inside their bodies — an impossible thing to visualize, but a feat she nonetheless attempted, with a patience and almost compulsive rigor."