“Since the inauguration of the 45th President of the United States, Jason Lazarus has been creating photograms. The photograms are hand-painted with photo developer and fixer on various types of fiber and resin coated papers. Each of the photograms has painted on it the phone number 202-456-1111. The phone number belongs to the White House.

Lazarus lives with a physical condition, arthrogryposis, the same condition that afflicts the NY Times reporter, Serge F. Kovaleski, who the 45th President publicly mocked on November 25, 2015. Lazarus donates the original photogram prints to different non-profit arts organizations (Visual Studies Workshop included), for their respective fundraising efforts in this era of attempted mass disenfranchisement.” -Visual Studies Workshop

202-456-111 was published by Visual Studies Workshop Press in 2018, and is a 40 page saddle-stitched book including a screen-printed envelope in an edition of 250. The book is part of the VSW Press Visual Book Club. Visual Studies Workshop is located in Rochester, New York and supports image makers and interpreters through education, publications, exhibitions, and collections. Jason Lazarus is a Florida based artist and writer whose work focuses on themes of visibility. Martha Rosler is an internationally acclaimed multidisciplinary artist and writer whose work centers around a feminist critique of culture and examines the public sphere.