Time Management Techniques

Thomas Ellis, Darrel Ellis’s father and an avid photographer, was brutally killed by intoxicated police officers in the South Bronx two months before Darrel was born. While Darrel was studying to be an artist—he took classes at Cooper Union and completed the Whitney’s Independent Study Program— his mother gave him a collection of his father’s negatives. To make this photograph, Ellis projected images taken by his father onto a sculptural form that he then photographed to create the distortions and disruptions seen here.