Women Prisoner Polaroids by Jack Lueders-Booth
Jack Luders-Booth’s Women Prison Polaroids presents a moving portrait of life at MCI Framingham, a correctional facility in Boston where the 88-year-old Harvard professor taught photography to inmates throughout the 1970s. Only revisited this year with the help of London publisher Stanley/Barker, the book pairs gentle portraits with personal accounts of inmates’ stories recorded during his time there, casting a sympathetic gaze upon women who have found themselves in very difficult circumstances. “The women were compelling in many ways; their backgrounds, their assertion of certain values,” he told AnOther. “I had no idea what a prison was like and I was actually scared when I first went, but it’s like so much in life – the more you [become acquainted with] something, the more normal it becomes.”
Read our feature on the series here.