In 2011 Pete Brook took his blog Prison Photography on the road. He used Kickstarter to successfully fund his trip, and produced a number of interviews with photographers, prisoners and activists, gave six lectures and visited three prisons. Last year the project grew in to the exhibition Cruel and Unusual at Nooderlicht in the Netherlands, with a newspaper-style exhibition catalogue and an upcoming Prison Photography on the Road (PPOTR) book.
Pete Brook, based in Portland, OR, is a freelance writer who focuses on the politics and social justice in photography. He writes about imagery produced within and about prisons on his own website Prison Photography. In 2011, Prison Photography was awarded a LIFE.com Photoblog Award and the British Journal of Photography recommended it among the Top Ten Best Photoblogs.
Pete Brook is the writer and editor of the Web site Prison Photography and the lead blogger for Raw File, the photography blog from Wired.com. Mr. Brook, 31, is undertaking a 12-week journey across the United States to interview photographers who have focused on American prisons. For more information, see Kickstarter. This interview has been edited and condensed.
