Testimonials
Portfolios
Experience our photographers’ unique views on detention by browsing the picture gallery below. These photographers have generously shared their portfolios with us.
“Walking into a classroom was like walking out of prison”
Analysis
Portfolio
Culture
North America
Central America and the Caribbean
South America
Activities
Rehabilitation
Argentina
In.Visibles has dedicated an article to education programmes in prisons, highlighting current projects and the people behind them. We are sharing it with you here.
In prison, under bombardment
Portfolio
Crises
Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
Torture
Activities
Work
Ukraine
Photographer Cory Wright travelled to Ukraine in September 2023. While there, he captured glimpses of life during wartime in the penitentiary centres of Mykolaiv, Kryvyi Rih, Kharkiv and Iziaslav.
Lebanon’s prisons
Portfolio
Pre-trial detention
Middle East
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Lebanon
In 2011, Lebanon had 24 prisons and Haitham Moussawi was the only Lebanese photographer to visit all of them.
POINT de vues
Insights
Portfolio
Women
Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
France
Delphine Dauphy and Marc Loyon ran photography workshops in prisons for six months. This involved visiting both Vezin-le-Coquet prison and Rennes women’s prison seven times. Every prisoner was able to take part in creating a body of images documenting their daily life.
Story Of Earl Reinhardt
Portfolio
North America
Long-term prisoners
Health
Rehabilitation
United States
Sarah Bones meets Earl, who has spent the past 50 of his 75 years behind bars.
Welcome to LTP
Portfolio
Europe
Health
Mental health
Drugs
Material conditions
Belarus
In Belarus, people are locked up to wean them off alcohol. These are strange places where time seems to have stopped after the fall of Soviet Union.
The Franklin Masacre Survivors
Portfolio
South America
Health
Protest
Violence
Venezuela
Carlos Hernandez photographed the men who survived Franklin Masacre’s reign over the General Penitentiary of Venezuela.
Camera intimă
Portfolio
Women
Europe
Access to legal rights
Material conditions
Social ties
Romania
Conjugal visits are allowed for prisoners and take place in private rooms, located inside the prison compound. Cosmin Bumbut photographed those places, when they were empty.
Prison stories // Andrew Aitchison
Portfolio
Europe
Material conditions
Social ties
Work
United Kingdom
The everyday lives of inmates, guards and visitors.
The Dungeon
Portfolio
Africa
Pre-trial detention
Minors
Material conditions
Burundi
Children languishing in dark cells. They are victims of alleged arbitrary justice, and they spend years without seeing the inside of a courtroom.
Captured childhood
Portfolio
Forgotten prisoners
Portfolio
Central America and the Caribbean
Pre-trial detention
Health
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Haiti
Prisoners are waiting. Most of them will never be judged because their files are missing. Many will die.
Seyi Rhodes is a journalist. He comments some pictures he has shot.
Breaking the circle
Portfolio
Waiting for justice
Portfolio
Africa
Pre-trial detention
Minors
Justice
Overcrowding
Sierra Leone
Children are incarcerated illegally in the maximum security prison of Pademba, in Sierra Leone. Fernando Moleres shares with us the daily lives of the minors in the Prison of Freetown.
Prisons
Portfolio
Prisons of Madagascar
Portfolio
Africa
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Madagascar
“Overcrowding, the stench of urine as soon as you cross the threshold, rats and vermin everywhere…” Virginie de Galzain