San Quentin Prison Portraits a Compulsion and a Springboard for Stefan Ruiz

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San Quentin Prison Portraits a Compulsion and a Springboard for Stefan Ruiz

I was interested to discover that photographs of San Quentin inmates played a formative role in Stefan Ruiz’s career. At 4:45mins, Ruiz talks about his position as an art teacher at San Quent…

via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/stefan-ruiz/

Ruiz likes to “work with the person.” From telenovela actors to hospital patients and clinicians and from rodeo queens to refugees, Ruiz has connected with his subjects through a transparent discussion about what they can achieve together with a device that records and stores their likeness.