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it was a Saturday night. It was a ride to Paris, we drove, all that, and then at some point we parked the car and when we were in uptown we walked on foot. While walking, we realized there was on the side of the station, what, there is the restaurant. A side view. And on the side, we realized that there were sheds. And in the sheds could be seen stacked crates. ... And then we
And then after you had the bright idea of committing a robbery with burglary. I will say, however that the theft is theoretically punishable by a maximum sentence of three years in prison. Compounded by a circumstance like that meeting, it goes up to five years. And aggravated by a second occasion as burglary, it goes up to seven years. So suddenly you have a bright idea, but it's still a theoretical sentence of seven years. "
lyrics Caught In , Raymond Depardon tries to go behind bars to hear the voices of those who live there, but also to photograph those places trial, sentencing, defense, who have become places of life.
It is not the only one to have been a walk in space discharge. Many writers and photographers have sought to meet those that were unfit to coexistence with society today. The prison plot if only because it is closed and no one knows quite what's going on. Certainly they are not punished more, rather it monitors, it spreads mainly ... Voyeurism is no longer the same as if we were witnessing an execution, but it is there. Me too, this admittedly somewhat unwholesome curiosity piqued me, and in this case, we look primarily to see what was hidden from us.
Photographers are finally numerous enough to have treated this subject, but with very personal perspectives.
Jane Evelyn Atwood has made several forays behind the gates of prisons for women: for her, the project was initiated by curiosity, pursued with a view to testify, completed with anger. She openly takes the side of women, often victims of men they followed, they defended themselves or avenged.
Lizzie Sadin was interested to minors throughout the world, they too often lack no recourse to have a shelter or a roof. It shows the difference in the conditions of detention in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America.
KlavdijSluban interested in those "parentheses" prison of teenagers in France, former USSR and former Yugoslavia, the newspaper outside the current time.
For Raymond Depardon, text and image complement each other to add the ears to eyes, to say also what constitutes the chaotic journey to the prison box.
All these photographers, to greater or lesser scale, have in common the desire talk about what they saw and experienced as to remove an excess of testimony which the snapshot is not enough, talk to those they met, sometimes to defend them, sometimes just to explain. All also have in common the black and white, blacks more often than whites, the shadows, the thin rays of light filtering through the plants. These choices are also aesthetic biases.
Many other photographers have obviously worked on the topic, many have also testified in writing, and finally, a lot of movies, dramas and documentaries.
Two pleasant surprises lately :
-Dog Pound Kim Chapiron, fiction about the detention center for minors Enola Vale, Virginia. The argument of the film press was to insist that the actors were in fact real juvenile delinquents who caused a lot of complications during filming. Dubious argument, but excellent film, actually. The main character, Butch, played by Adam Butcher, is absolutely convincing.
- Prison Valley , web document innovative Philippe Brault and David Dufresne, launched in recent months by Arte. The exception here is we do not travel behind bars, but we will examine everything that revolves around the prisons around a valley that U.S. based most of its activity and its economy on prisons an industry that knows no crisis, especially in the United States. The process is very interesting also for its organization: the user moves himself into the valley, go to the interviewees, etc..
Some foods for eye / ear / ideas, so:
Jane Evelyn Atwood, Too many penalties: Women in Prison, Albin Michel, 2000.
A photopoche has also just published the entire work.
Lizzie Sadin, Minors in penalties, photopoche society, Actes Sud, 2010.
KlavdijSluban, brackets photopoche society, Actes Sud, 2005.
Raymond Depardon, Send prisoners, Knopf, May 2004.
Depardon has also made documentary films on the subject, Flagrants Torts (1994) and 10th Chamber, moments of hearing (2004).
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