From Pete Brook’s recent article on the brilliant and considered way that Nigel Poor is activating an archive of images at the San Quentin Prison in California for The Atlantic. Poor uses the photos as teaching tools to draw out the emotional content of the photos. Once she has… Continue reading
The Archive of Unmade Photographs* is an ongoing project where participants respond to the prompt; “What moment from your life do you most wish you had a photograph of?” To participate, individuals create a postcard ‘from’ their chosen memory; describing it’s importance, and why no photograph exists. For the 2014… Continue reading
It is often when institutions clamp down hardest, when transparency is most limited and the freedom of photography most suppressed, that images, like water held between hands, find their way into the public to to reveal complex, human, and generative truths. Alyse Emdur’s ongoing project, Prison Landscapes, sources images… Continue reading