Photoville

New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement

New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement

A grassroots coalition dedicated to ending the torture of solitary in New York’s prisons and jails through public education, community organizing, and passage of the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term (HALT) Solitary Confinement Act in the state legislature.

Archive Exhibitions Supported by New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement

Photo Requests from Solitary

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2017

“Photo Requests from Solitary” invites men and women held in long-term solitary confinement to request a photograph of anything at all, real or imagined, and finds artists to make the images. The resulting photographs provide an archive of the hopes, memories, and interests of people who endure extreme isolation and sensory deprivation.

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Photo Requests from Solitary

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
 archive : 2013

What would a person in complete isolation want to see? Men in solitary confinement at Tamms supermax prison in Illinois were asked to request a photograph of anything in the world, real or imagined, and Tamms Year Ten found photographers to make the images.

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Archive Sessions and Events Supported by New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement

Sep 222013

Photo Requests from Solitary

The “Photo Requests from Solitary” event at Photoville brings together artists, activists, journalists, and survivors of solitary confinement. This panel discussion with accompanying slide show will introduce audiences to the reality of torture taking place in their own backyards, while exploring the power of photography to humanize one of the most marginalized group of people in our society, educate the public and the press, and spur social change on one of our most pressing domestic human rights issues.

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