What Would It Take To Actually See What Life Is Like in Prison?
An issue and exhibit from the photography foundation Aperture breaks down old tropes of prison life.
You don’t aspire towards something you already have, or claim something you hold with confidence. The implicit longing towards simple freedoms—an open sky, an unscheduled morning—freedoms that are denied to millions of people, is also poignantly captured by Jack Lueders-Booth, another of the issue’s photographers.
Lueders-Booth’s series Women Prisoners presents women (held in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution-Framingham prison during the late ’70s and mid-’80s) as they want to be seen.
By John Washington