The Killing Cycle

he Killing Cycle is a look into the murderous cycle of urban crime. There's a new kind of killer on the street. Young men in their teens and early 20s, with no regard for life, not even their own, carrying weapons in the past just used just for warfare. Granted with unparalleled access for a week with the Essex County Homicide Task Force, a view of community crisis that is urban crime fueled by gangs and drugs and the effort to break the murderous cycle.

Aristide joined the staff of The (Newark NJ) Star-Ledger in November 2000, where he covers a variety of topics from urban violence to prep sports. He has traveled extensively documenting wide-ranging events from the Olympic Games in Athens, Greece to the recovery effort in Port au Prince, Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake. Aris’s photographs have been exhibited at museums and galleries throughout the United States and internationally. He also lectured at numerous institutions including presenting his work at a 2002 symposium on the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in Manhattan at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. Previously he worked at the State Journal-Register in Springfield, IL and the Dubois County Herald in Jasper, IN. A native of Bethesda, Maryland, Economopoulos resides in Jersey City, New Jersey.