Fernando Moreles: ‘Merciless Justice’ « Prison Photography

It’s often difficult to engage an audience with “new” images of prisons, but Moreles succeeded with the image of the collapsed official at his desk (above). The disorganisation of paperwork in this image works as metaphor for a broken institution – much as Hogarth’s littered furniture and bodies are metaphors for broken society.

Link: Fernando Moreles: ‘Merciless Justice’ « Prison Photography