The Four Corners: Prison Photos and Detainee Portraiture « Prison Photography

The Four Corners: Prison Photos and Detainee Portraiture

Last week, Eliza Gregory at PhotoPhilanthropy got knee-deep in speculations about prison photography. Eliza was spurred by NPR’s On the Media which “did a story about a series of images that …

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Eliza was spurred by NPR’s On the Media which “did a story about a series of images that the International Committee of the Red Cross made of the prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. The ICRC made pictures of the prisoners to send to their families, and allowed each prisoner to choose which particular image would be sent. Naturally, the images the prisoners collaborated in making are very different from the images we’ve seen of them in the news.”