December 2009
145 posts
Greg Kahn on Prisoner Reentry →
Greg Kahn documented Douglas Bolden, 52, following his release. Bolden lives in Fort Myers Florida, cares for four children and at the time of the photo-essay was struggling to find…
Confessions of a Forensic Photography Lab... →
For two and half years I worked as a master printer at a photography lab in Chicago that specialized in meeting the evidential and illustrative needs of lawyers, insurance agencies, and law…
Prison Radio in the UK and the US →
Brixton Prison governor Paul McDowell: ‘We don’t let them have too much fun.’ Photograph: Martin Argles
THE FACTS
The UK’s most well-known prison radio station is the Sony…
Simulation and Memory: Prison Museums →
Daniel Etter’s project from Hohenschonhausen piggybacks on the story of Norbert Krebs to shape the narrative. Krebs was imprisoned in Hohenschonhausen – the primary Stasi Prison…
John Szarkowski on Thomas Roma →
In 2005, Powerhouse Books published Thomas Roma’s book In Prison Air: The Cells of Holmesburg Prison.
Arguably, the introduction by John Szarkowski is more interesting – or…
Happy Christmas →
Christmas tree at the District Jail, Washington, D.C. and some of the prisoners (circa 1909-1932). National Photo Company Collection, Library of Congress. # LOT 12342-9
Posted in…
Eugene Debs, Released Christmas Day, 1921 →
Eugene V. Debs, Five times Socialist candidate for President, as he leaves the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia on Christmas Day, 1921. Library of Congress Prints and…
Colin Pantall, Media and The Bogeywoman →
Related to crime and tangentially to prisons, Colin Pantall has been examining the cult, mythologies and obfuscations at the point where visual media and female criminals cross. He…
Adam Westbrook pays a visit to John Hirst a.k.a.... →
I’ve gotten to know Adam Westbrook’s work through mutual online friends. I signed up for his Twitter feed about the same time I did for the RSS feed on John Hirst’s Jailhouselawyer’s…
Keep the Group Tight: Jon Lowenstein, Jehad Nga... →
© Jon Lowenstein/NOOR Images. From the series ’ Tent City’. Image: LOJ020
This image by Jon Lowenstein of NOOR Images from his series Tent City reminded me of some…
SERCO: Connecting Schools to Nukes to Air Traffic... →
Serco is a UK based multinational company, with many fingers in many pies. The Guardian has called them “The biggest company you’ve never heard of.”
Serco sees profit in many things,…
Families to Amend California’s Three Strikes →
The greatest priority for sentencing reform must be to dismantle the Three Strikes Law.
Three Strikes has not made society safer, it has only handed down overly-punitively long…
Condition Critical in the Congo →
This post is a while overdue. As I am sure you know, Medecins Sans Frontier launched Condition: Critical this year. It is a website to bring together the many stories of victims of…
What would happen… →
“What would happen if the printed book had just been invented in a high-tech world in which people had never done their reading from anything but computer screens? The unquestionable advantages of the computer would not be threatened by this new product but the people, who so love to compare apples with pears, would be quite bowled over by this ultra-modern invention: after years spent chained to...
He PERSONALLY killed 10,000 in Liberia’s Civil War... →
Ryan Lobo talked about three of his projects at a recent TED conference. The first story Lobo told stopped me in my tracks.
Lobo photographed Joshua, a man formerly known as…
“Whatever is causing climate change is irrelevant on some level, in my mind,...”
– Ed Kashi
Larry Sultan on the Accumulation of... →
Larry Sultan is gone. When someone is gone I try to identify a piece of wisdom that should not go with them. (Go straight to the bottom of this post for Sultan’s wisdom without my…
“None of the art/photo blogs ever seem to ask the most obvious question: Is there...”
– Marching Under The Banner Of Freedom
‘Hello Dad…I’m in Jail’ by WAS (NOT WAS) →
I’ve shared this before on Photography Prison, but it’s been ringing in my brain all night.
Your midweek menace:
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Posted in Prison Non-Photography Tagged: Hello Dad…I’m in Jail,…
This Blog is Not a Blog … →
… it is a Journal.
That wasn’t always the case. Two days ago, I’d have said I was a blogger .. and all the time before that.
But describing yourself as a blogger is a lot like describing…
Casper the Friendly Host →
Jim Casper, founder, creator and overlord of LensCulture has asked for a helping hand. I expect it takes a lot of time and resources to keep LensCulture ticking. What has he…
Award-winning Videographer Arrested in West... →
After being treated like a child molester by a cop in a shopping mall, award-winning videographer Scott Rensberger reached up to snap a picture of the offending officer.
The officer did what many officers would do in that situation; he lifted his hand in front of the camera to block the photo. Contact was made.
Rensberger was then arrested for battery on a police officer.
Hamburger Eyes on the Future →
Of course, everyone in the photobooks debate had their own preface and a necessary confirmation bias to bolster. Andy and Miki unleashed a monster. Great stuff.
IT’S THE EYE OF THE…
“Howard “Boots” McGhee was photographing his family in a California state park...”
– California man told he needs permit to photograph family
Sketchy Santa →
No, not this type.
The type that is a) the Anglican Church’s leading expert on St. Nicholas of Myra; b) accompanied by a distinguished Anglican cleric; c) dressed as St. Nicholas rather than…