Storied Lives is an exploration of personal freedom through the stark lens of contrasts. In juxtaposing two distinctive documentary projects, this work reveals how the presence or absence of personal freedom impacts the human condition. Graham’s photographs in STORIED LIVES began in his book, "Land of the Free" a tribute to the American people in all their idiosyncratic splendor. His portraits now serve as a mirror in time, but, held slightly askew. Warpinski's Death|s|trip tells the stories of dreams and lives that were lost. Landscape photographs serve as the stage upon which memory is restored through paired narratives of human mortality. Each location photographed in contemporary Berlin links the site to a victim of the Berlin Wall - an individual who died in a desperate failed attempt to flee oppression. What Death|s|trip reveals is striking in its detail, heartbreaking in the failures depicted, and disturbing in the resemblance it bears to situations today.