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Women Lost To Decades, Even Life, In Prison For Non-Violent “Conspiracy” Drugs Charges 20 Aug 2013 | 12:03 pm
Elainaise Mervil. Source: The Tallahassee Project via VICE I was recently speaking with an advocate who visited women’s prisons in California to learn about their circumstances and build cases for re...
Dead Man Eatings: Julie Green in ‘In The Make’ 20 Aug 2013 | 07:15 am
A single wall representing the meals of men and women executed in Texas, part of Julie Green’s The Last Supper: 500 Plates exhibited at Marylhurst University, Oregon (April 16 – May 17, 2013). Photo: ...
Giovanni Cobianchi’s Portraits From Inside Bolivia’s San Pedro Prison 12 Aug 2013 | 08:09 am
San Pedro Prison in La Paz, Bolivia is a singular type of prison. It accepts tourists. It also attracts professional photographers. For me, the story of San Pedro has always been the sporadic schedule...
Christophe Negrel 6 Aug 2013 | 01:32 pm
Prison by Christophe Negrel is shot in French prisons and focuses on the physical regimes kept by prisoners. Some great studies of moment in the portfolio. Filed under: Documentary, Fine Art Tagged: ...
Installation Shots from ‘Portraits and Pixels’ 24 Jul 2013 | 01:50 am
When friends call and ask if you’d like to mount a show in a brewery, there’s only one answer. University Beyond Bars was putting on a prison art fundraiser at Machine House Brewery in Georgetown, Se...
Eye On PDX: The Portland Grid Project 23 Jul 2013 | 09:43 am
Bryan Wolf, “Eclipse watchers” (Grid M9). On Saturday, my article The Grid Project: A Photo-Survey of Portland was published in The Oregonian. It was my first ever piece for The Oregonian, a paper wh...
‘Portraits & Pixels’ Prison Photography Exhibit / Prison Art Auction, Saturday 20th, Seattle 18 Jul 2013 | 11:39 am
Student of Univeristy Beyond Bars, Monroe Correctional Complex, 2011 © Erika Schultz IF YOU ARE IN SEATTLE … Opening on Saturday, 20th July is Prison Art an art auction fundraiser for University Bey...
After 20-Year Photo Ban, California Prisoners In Solitary Can See and Share Their Own Portraits 16 Jul 2013 | 07:59 am
Marie Levin holds a photo of her brother, Ronnie Dewberry, taken at San Quentin State Prison in 1988. Until recently, it was the last photograph he’d had taken. Photo credit: Adithya Sambamurthy/The C...
‘The Zone/Prisoners’ by Olga Chagaoutdinova 15 Jul 2013 | 01:38 am
Prisoner Ustinova (2005) Olga Chagaoutdinova‘s The Zone/Prisoners (2005 – 2007) is a series of psychological portraits taken in a women’s prison in the far eastern reaches of Russia. “The intent of...
Make-Up and Make-Do Fashions: Edyta Ganc’s Masterful Portraits in a Polish Women’s Prison 11 Jul 2013 | 06:56 am
AN EMAIL FROM POLAND “The women have different histories but they all have one thing in common — they all just wanted to have nice portraits,” read the email from Edyta Ganc. Well, she nailed it. Ga...
