KnivesKnives is an elegy for American manufacturing made over several years, using photography to trace the shifting relationships between masculinity, myth, and violence in a rural town whose economic base, eviscerated by globalisation, is now supported by the prison industrial complex. The cutlery industry formed the economic backbone of New Yorks Hudson Valley for over 150 years, until the Schrade knife factory abruptly closed in 2004, leaving 700 men