Mourn For Me

• Prize
• Photographer
  Nehyru Fabré lives in New York City and holds a B.A. in Sociology from the City College of New York. Nehyru is a self-taught photographer, who shoots between 35mm and the digital medium, United States
• Website
  http://nehyrufabre.com

Mourn For Me

In numerous economically depressed & disenfranchised neighborhoods in N.Y.C,
inhabited by predominantly people of color, the presence of R.I.P memorial wall murals,
unfortunately are commonplace, along side other omnipresent perennial structures: liquor
shops, funeral parlors, bodegas & Asian fast food shops.

R.I.P memorial wall murals are democratic in nature, no matter how diverse your walk
in life, no one is immune to being immortalized via a wall mural: musicians, some iconic,
police brutality victims, children, athletes, neighborhood locals, suicide and disease
victims, wrong place, wrong time innocent victims, the common hard working law abiding
woman/man, your mother, cousin, daughter and an overwhelming percentage of fathers,
uncles, brothers, grandfathers and potential future fathers.


As I encounter an R.I.P memorial wall mural, I’m always in awe by the magnitude and
artistic flare that went into these heartfelt & emotional portraits, whether life like or
caricatures. Seeing these various R.I.P memorial wall murals as another variation of
tombstones, my heart & compassion always goes out at the site of a commemorative wall,
whether I know them personally or not. Over time, encountering scores upon scores of these
R.I.P. murals leaves me overcome with a feeling of great sadness and a feeling of deep
loss as a people; so many perished lives and unfortunately, so many future lives that the
‘hood will consume due to a multitude of social, economical, political, racial and other
contributing factors.

As a compassionate human being, acute observer & photographer, I’m intrigued by this
kind of humanity, this compelling inner desire by loved ones, fans, strangers, friends,
biological as well as street family, to pay homage/reverence via commissioned & non
commissioning of beautiful, colorful & artistic memorial murals of the deceased, who
obviously have impacted them tremendously leaving a painful void in their hearts.

• Awards
  Nehyru Fabré, has had his first solo shows at the historic Morris Jumel Mansion in New York City and with The New York Public Library. Nehyru has been in group shows at the Annual Contemporary Artists in America, Great Neck, N.Y. and participated in PHOTOcentric 2013 and won the 2nd place award in the architecture category, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, N.Y.