A weathered Madonna carrying a child stands amid the cemetery grounds, her face softened by decades of exposure and industrial residue. A smokestack from a city incinerator looms in the background. The subaltern is  post-extinction species. 

The Cavalry: Studies at Calvary Cemetery is an ongoing series of medium format photographs made at Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York, on Ilford Delta 100 film.

The stone figures in these images, Madonnas, angels, pietàs, bear the chemical erosion of the industrial corridor surrounding Newtown Creek, where copper smelting plants operated for more than a century. Immigrant women and girls are buried throughout the cemetery; many were killed by the labor that employed them.

Each print is an extension of the larger Watered project.

Edition of 15

8.5 × 11 inches

2026

Hahnemühle Bright White Cotton Rag

Signed and numbered

Includes archival certificate