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Solitary Watch

Solitary Watch

Archive Exhibitions Supported by Solitary Watch

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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