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July 10, 2024

Choosing the angle

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Africa Justice Material conditions Torture

Ben Buckland is a Senior Advisor on torture prevention and an award-winning photographer. Drawing on his experience with human rights organisations, he tells powerful stories through his photography. He explains the process behind one of his photographs.

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June 21, 2024

Türkiye: where art forms converge

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Long-term prisoners Health Facilities Torture Turkey

Inspected (Görülmüştür) aims to shed light on Turkish prisons using artwork created by incarcerated individuals. This edition brings together 50 photographers and 50 political prisoners to share their poems, photos, and stories.

October 27, 2023

France: rediscovering one’s image

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Facilities Social ties Rehabilitation Work France

In 2011, photographer Béatrice Ropers visited Ferme de Moyembrie, an agricultural facility that takes in men nearing the end of their sentences. As the seasons changed, the subjects of her photographs shared their life stories, feelings and fears. She told us the story of one of her photographs.

January 12, 2023

France: “Non-places"

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Europe Facilities France

Grégoire Korganow is a photographer. His series Périphéries (Surroundings) reveals the geography of incarceration in France: places in the middle of nowhere farther than the eye can see. He spoke with Prison Insider about one of his photographs.

November 7, 2022

France: in search of freedom

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Europe Justice Rehabilitation France

Kevin Dubost is a photographer and social worker who led the project “À traversé” between 2019 and 2021: a series of photographs capturing the moments when people being released from prison experienced freedom. He describes one of his photographs.

June 1, 2022

Venezuela: the moment before

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South America Women Venezuela

Ana Maria Arévalo Gosen takes photographs of women incarcerated in Latin America. She explains the genesis of her project Días Eternos and comments on one of her images.

May 24, 2022

"These two photos were my first introduction to prison life"

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Europe Material conditions Facilities France

“I had barely taken a step inside when a rat jumped out of the toilet bowl and landed on my feet…” Thierry Chantegret is a photographer. He joined, in 2021, the team of the Controller-General for Places of Deprivation of Liberty (CGLPL). He comments, for Prison Insider, two of his photos.

May 17, 2022

USA: "This is the real Miami"

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North America Minors Justice United States

Richard Ross has been working on incarcerated minors for almost two decades. He is commenting a picture which encapsulates his commitment to this subject. A picture to tell what the country is doing with his youth.