Weights & Measures

(2014-2017)

Weights & Measures explores abuse of power and accountability on a global scale. Employing his distinctive style of social portraiture, artist Bradley McCallum captured individuals as they appeared before international courts and tribunals. 

In dialogue with his portraits are photographs of criminal justice practitioners and stories from witnesses and victims involved in the cases crime he surveyed. McCallum’s concern with reaching a broad and wide audience is evident in the series of civic engagements engendered by the project in the United States and abroad.

This project was created in dialogue with the Coalition of the International Criminal Court (NYC) and the International Criminal Court (The Hague). 

Weights and Measures is made possible through the generous support of the following organizations:  The Embassy of Norway (South Africa), National Endowment for the Arts (United States), New York State Council on the Arts (United States) , The Embassy of Norway (South Africa), The High Commission of Canada (South Africa), StratAlign (South Africa). This includes individual gifts and significant in-kind support of partners in South Africa and beyond: Southern Africa Litigation Centre (South Africa), Constitution Hill Museum (South Africa), Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center (South Africa), Mesh Club (South Africa) Creating Rights (Netherlands), AYINET (Uganda). 
Exhibitions of the artwork and civic dialogues were organized at Constitution Hill Museum (Johannesburg), Kinz + Tillou (New York), The Sorenson Center for International Peace (New York), The Irish Biennial (Ireland), Assembly of States Parties (Marriott Hotel, The Hague), among others.