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Jersey City, NJ | Photos by Susan Berger

Quiet Streets

Artist: Susan Berger

Project: Martin Luther King Dr.

In most American cities there is an avenue or boulevard bearing Martin Luther King Jr.’s name. From Shreveport, Louisiana to Portland, Oregon, photographer Susan Berger’s work documents contemporary scenes of the neighborhoods surrounding these streets and, in the spirit of their namesake, examines the ways in which King inspires or influences residents.

Portland, OR

Shreveport, LA

Little Rock, AR

Jersey City, NJ

Shreveport, LA

Little Rock, AR

Houston, TX

Chicago, IL

Jersey City, NJ

Brooklyn, NJ

Newark, NJ

Los Angeles, CA

New Orleans, LA

Seattle, WA

New York, NY

Savannah, GA

Macon, GA

Macon, GA

Atlanta, GA

Los Angeles, CA

Jersey City, NJ

Chicago, IL

Milwaukee, WI

Milwaukee, WI





Susan Berger

Susan Berger studied photography at Columbia College in Chicago as well as the University of Arizona. She’s been awarded the Artist’s Project Grant by the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and her work is currently in the permanent collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Southeast Museum of Photography, the Lishui Photography Museum of China, and Roosevelt University in Chicago. View more of her work at www.susanbergerphotographs.com