
Echoes of the Witch
2019—Present Present-day America
In collaboration with visual artist Margaux Crump, Echoes of the Witch is a photographic documentary project exploring cultural memory, power, and the land as they manifest through the history of American witch executions.
Since 2019, we have travelled throughout present-day America to document the locations where records indicate fifty-four individuals were accused of witchcraft and executed by the state. In each location, this project investigates how the land and the people in these sites have honored, altered, hidden, perverted, or neglected the memories of these persecutions. The images featured below comprise a small edit of a much larger body of work.
This project operates on the premise that places hold memory, and that cultural memory can be deeply rooted. What we choose to remember—and how—has a profound impact on how we understand ourselves and our world. The goal of this work is to help bring these memories back into awareness in order to encourage healing, (un)learning and collective evolution.
To learn more about the full project,
visit the official Echoes of the Witch website
or download the project PDF
Since 2019, we have travelled throughout present-day America to document the locations where records indicate fifty-four individuals were accused of witchcraft and executed by the state. In each location, this project investigates how the land and the people in these sites have honored, altered, hidden, perverted, or neglected the memories of these persecutions. The images featured below comprise a small edit of a much larger body of work.
This project operates on the premise that places hold memory, and that cultural memory can be deeply rooted. What we choose to remember—and how—has a profound impact on how we understand ourselves and our world. The goal of this work is to help bring these memories back into awareness in order to encourage healing, (un)learning and collective evolution.
To learn more about the full project,
visit the official Echoes of the Witch website
or download the project PDF

An overgrown bush on the grounds of the abandoned Westbrook Village. The exact location of the gallows where Alse Young (1647), Mary Johnson (1648), Joan & John Carrington (1651), Lydia Gilbert (1654), Mary Barnes (1663), Nathanial & Rebecca Greensmith (1663), and Mary Sanford (1662) were hanged is unknown. This is one of the possible execution sites. Hartford, CT.


A tree with hammock chairs on the present-day campus center lawn of St. Mary’s College of Maryland overlooks the small hill that is the likely execution site where Rebecca Fowler was hanged in 1685. St. Mary's, MD.



The interior of a local ice cream parlor named after Goody Bassett, who was tried and executed for witchcraft in 1651. Stratford, CT.

Years after opening Goody Bassett’s Ice Cream parlor, the proprietor learned that an unassuming drainage ditch running directly beneath the building is the remains of Gallows Brook, where tradition holds Goody Bassett was executed for witchcraft in 1651. Stratford, CT.













During her witch-themed bachelorette party, a bride-to-be poses for pictures in front of a crone witch statue surrounded by wax museums, haunted houses, and—as of 1992—the Salem Witch Trial Memorial. Salem, Ma


Three friends dressed up as witches make their way through crowded streets during the Haunted Happenings Halloween weekend in Salem, which hosts more than 900,000 people during the city’s festivities each October. Salem, MA

A life-size diorama in The Witch History Museum imagines the apocryphal scene of young women dancing in the woods, where they were thought to commune with the Devil (pictured in the background). Salem, MA.


In response to protests by Christian evangelists publicly condemning witchcraft, guising, and non-believers, a tourist dressed as a witch lets her middle finger fly for a photo op at the “Bewitched” statue, which stands on the exact location of the former family mansion of judge John Hathorne, who served as a magistrate during the Salem Witch Trials. Salem, MA

