Over the course of three years, Greg Gulbransen photographed Malik, a set leader of the violent street gang the Crips. Malik was shot and paralysed in 2018 by a bullet from a rival gang. His world now centres on his small Bronx apartment in New York, where he is cared for by his family and fellow gang members.

Gulbransen is a practising doctor who had been photographing in the Bronx in his spare time and had got to know some local kids. He noticed many young men in wheelchairs with spinal injuries and was professionally curious. He was told they had all been shot. He wanted to speak to someone in a wheelchair and was introduced to Malik through a fellow Crip.

The title, Say Less, is the title supplied by the publisher; no further explanation of its meaning is provided in the available catalogue text.

GOST Books published the book in 2024 as a hardback clothbound volume of 160 pages. The publisher lists Greg Gulbransen as the photographer. The ISBN is 9781915423368.