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One picture, one story. Photographers tell us what they have captured here and why. Experience their unique views on detention.

October 27, 2023

France: rediscovering one’s image

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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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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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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.

May 24, 2022

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

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“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.