Deborah Luster

Luster has at least one book in print, One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, and is known for using older technology such as tintype to document and artistically portray violent crime and related topics.

[5] Luster published a 64-page 17-inch hardcover book titled Tooth for an Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish in February 2011.

[6] In earlier work, Luster photographed Mexican religious votive paintings and people she "connected" with to create "saints" in conjunction with C.D.

[8] Luster has documented murder scenes in New Orleans and claims to be unaffected from visiting such places, but can be quoted describing some as possessed with energy and heat.

[9] Luster worked with C.D Wright in Louisiana State Pen for six years (1998-2003)[10] on One Big Self making portraits of prisoners in silver-gelatin emulsion on metal boards.